Meaning of Ch'i-ch'un | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“Hung-jen’s temple is frequently referred to as Huang-mei, after the district in which it was located. It is in present-day Ch’i-ch’un in Hupeh.”

“Li Shih-chen was one of our nation's great doctors and pharmacologists. He was a native of Ch'i-ch'un in Hupeh during the Ming Dynasty.”

“General Wang's army was based at Ch'i-ch'un, in modern Hupeh, just north of the Yangtze, some hundred miles down river from the next and more important point in the Sui deployment, Han-k'ou, where the Han River enters the Yangtze.”

“Tu Ts'ao was appointed Prefect of Ch'i-chou 蘄州 (present-day Ch'i-ch'un 蘄春 in Hu-pei Province), and Tu Mu and Yi accompanied Ts'ao to Ch'i-chou, and then Tu Mu returned to the capital.”

“The Mongols invaded Szechuan in 1236, and Ch’in fled to the east, where he first became a vice-administrator (t’ung-p’an) in Ch’i-chou prefecture (now Ch’i-ch’un in Hupeh province) and then governor of Ho-chou (now Ho-hsien in Anhwei province).”

“The author of The Compendium of Materia Medica was Li Shih-chen (1518-93), a pioneering scholar in the field of medicinal research in the late Ming. A native of Ch’i-chou in Hukuang (modern Ch’i-ch’un in Hupei), Li Shih-chen achieved the first-degree hsiu-ts'ai in 1531, but gave up obtaining the second-degree chü-jen after three unsuccessful attempts between 1534 and 1540.”

“According to Hsing yüan 姓苑, the surname Ch'i 蘄 derived from the place name Ch'i-ch'un 蘄春, located in the present Ch'i-chun hsien 蘄春縣, Hu-pei 湖北 province.”

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