Sijiangou

See also: Sijian'gou and Sìjiàngōu

English

Alternative forms

• Sijian'gou (misspelling)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 泗澗溝／泗涧沟 (Sìjiàngōu).

Proper noun

Sijiangou

1. An archaeological site in Sijian, Zhicheng, Jiyuan, Henan, China.
   • [1982, 香港中文大學中國文化硏究所學報 [The Journal of the Institute of Chinese Studies of the Chinese University of Hongkong]‎^[1], volumes 13-14, Chinese University of Hongkong, →OCLC, page 212:

     As a whole the mortuary pottery of Ssu-chien-kou, including all sorts of household vessels, architectural models, human figures and animals is altogether of very fine quality in art. Tomb 16 of Ssu-chien-kou has yielded a[...]

     (Note: Ssu-chien-kou is the Wade–Giles-derived name for Sijiangou.)]

   • 1994, Bulletin‎^[2], numbers 66-67, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28:

     The tree was excavated from Tomb 8 at Jiyuan, Sijiangou in Henan Province.

   • 2002, Silvia Freiin Ebner von Eschenbach, “Trees of Life and Trees of Death in China: The Magical Quality of Trees in a Deforested Country”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[3], volume 152, number 2, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 381:

     A tree, made of ceramic glazed in green and red, dating from the Western Han Dynasty, 63 centimeters high was found in a tomb near Sijiangou of the Jiyuan district in the province of Henan.

   • 2009, F. Lisheng, T. Qingjun, “Crank-Connecting Rod Mechanism”, in International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms‎^[4], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 247:

     Since the 1970s, models of pottery winnowing-machines have been unearthed continually in Jiyuan and Luoyang, at the Henan province and in Ruicheng, at the Shanxi province. Among them, a winnowing-machine model unearthed in Sijiangou, Jiyuan could be traced back to the period of the Western Han (Fig. 23) [13].

   • 2016, Jeong Su-il, The Silk Road Encyclopedia‎^[5], Seoul Selection U.S.A., Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page [6]:

     From the Melikawat Ruins in Hotan, Xinjiang (新疆), which belonged to the Later Han Dynasty, and the tomb found in Sijiangou (泗澗溝) Village in Jiyuan (濟源), Henan (河南) Province, nude sculptures of mud and clay were excavated.

   • 2021 May 14, “Red glazed pottery lamp with embracing bears design”, in acf, editor, Henan Museum‎^[7], archived from the original on 02 April 2022:

     This pottery lamp, one of the multitude of the potteries unearthed in Sijiangou Han tomb, was discovered at the meeting place of the front chamber and the passageway which leads to the back chamber.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Sijiangou.

Translations

archaeological site

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 泗澗溝／泗涧沟 (Sìjiàngōu)

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