Ch'ang-tzu

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 長子长子 (Chángzǐ)[1], Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻang²-tzŭ³.

Proper noun

Ch'ang-tzu

  1. Synonym of Zhangzi
    • 1971, Harold L. Kahn, Monarchy in the Emperor's Eyes: Image and Reality in the Chʻien-lung Reign, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 69:
      A chü-jen of 1657, he later served an exemplary ten months as magistrate of Ch'ang-tzu hsien in Shansi but was then cashiered for negligence in the case of an escaped person.
    • 1976, Sidney L. Greenblatt, editor, The People of Taihang, White Plains, NY: International Arts and Sciences Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 78:
      Truly, the Communist Party is the savior and benefactor of poor and miserable people. Had the Eighth Route Army come to Ch’ang-tzu a few years earlier, would my mother now be bedridden?
    • 1984, Yang, Hsüan-chih, “Western Suburbs”, in Yi-t'ung Wang, transl., A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Lo-yang, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 167:
      The remaining princes assumed a position of neutrality, except [Yüan] Hui, the only [prince] who accompanied Emperor Chuang to the city of Ch’ang-tzu.³²
      ³² West of modern Ch’ang-tzu hsien 長子縣, Shansi.
    • 1996, Rawson, Jessica, “Changes in the Representation of Life and the Afterlife as Illustrated by the Contents of Tombs of the T’ang and Sung Periods”, in Maxwell K. Hearn; Judith G. Smith, editors, Arts of the Sung and Yüan, Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 26:
      Eastern Chou tombs in central northern China, at Ch’ang-tzu in Shansi, contained both bodies of real servants and replicas in wood.

References

  1. “長子”, in Ministry of Education Mandarin Chinese Dictionary, n.d.: “㈡cháng zǐ ㈡ ㄔㄤˊ ㄗˇ 縣名。在山西省省境東南,位於發鳩山東北,濁漳水源之北。”
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