Meaning of Ch'ü-fu | Babel Free

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Noun. [B1]

Examples

“There is a portrait of Confucius at Chʻü-fu attributed to Wu and another striking picture representing the struggle of a tortoise with a serpent, kuei she tʻu, which is in the Prefect's official residence at Chʻêng-tu, Sze-chʻuan.”

“He is bury'd in a stately Sepulcher in the same Town where he was born.¹ [...] ¹ The temple-tomb at Chʻü-fu in Shantung ; it is about a mile from the modern city ; this 'stately Sepulcher' was at that time in a delapidated state of repair.”

“Soon after the old man's death, the mother of Confucius took him to live closer to the state capital, Ch'ü-fu- a town which still flourishes as a modern city in southwestern Shantung.”

“It is recorded that the Duke of Chou sent his eldest son, Po Ch'in, to take charge of a large fiefdom in the east in what is now the prefecture of Ch'ü-fu in Shantung.”

“Next in the traditionally accepted sequence of Shang capitals is Yen, tentatively identified with a site out in Shandong amid the Tung Yi, near what would eventually become Ch'ü-fu in the state of Lu.”

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