Fufeng

See also: fúfēng

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Etymology

From Mandarin 扶風扶风 (Fúfēng).

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Fufeng

  1. A county of Baoji, Shaanxi, western China.
    • 1921, Eric Teichman, Travels of a Consular Officer in North-West China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page 89:
      Ch'ishan, a second class district city, much resembles Wukung and Fufeng, and seems fairly prosperous for a city of Central Shensi.
    • 1979 July, “2,000-year-old Paper”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVIII, number 7, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 51:
      Three pieces of paper which may date back to between 73 and 49 BC were recently found in Fufeng county, Shaanxi province.
    • [1982, Robert L. Thorp, “A Primer on the Bronze Caster's Art”, in Spirit and Ritual: The Morse Collection of Ancient Chinese Art, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 23, column 1:
      A vessel almost identical in every particular was excavated at Lü-chai Village, in Fu-feng County, Shensi, in 1975.]
    • 2004, Edward L. Shaughnessy, “Western Zhou Hoard and Family Histories in the Zhouyuan”, in Xiaoneng Yang, editor, New Perspectives on China's Past: Chinese Archaeology in the Twentieth Century, volume 1, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 255:
      Throughout Chinese history, Qishan county in Shaanxi province has been known as the ancestral homeland of the Zhou people. In reality, the actual site of the Zhou homeland, known as the Zhouyuan 周原 (Plain of Zhou), includes only the eastern edge of Qishan county, where it meets Fufeng county (fig. 12-1).
    • 2011 March 13, Nicky Loh, “DOCUMENT DATE: March 13, 2011”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 02 June 2022:
      A monk sits beside a security guard inside Famen Temple in Famen town, Fufeng County, 120 km (74 miles) west of Xi'an, Shaanxi province, March 13, 2011.

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