Meaning of Chin-ch'uan | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

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“A magnificent find was reported in Wen Wu, 1966, 3, from Chin-ch'uan County, Kansu Province.”

“A magnificent find was first reported from Chin-ch'uan County, Kansu Province in 1963.¹”

“Figs. 2.44a-c Dhyānāsana Buddha with mandorla, canopy and 4-footed stand, from Yü-tu hsiang, Chin-ch'uan hsien, eastern Kansu, gilt bronze, Phase II, Kansu sheng po-wu-kuan, Lan chou”

“The silver earrings worn by the women of the Chin-chʻuan, a border district of Ssŭ-chʻuan inhabited by Tibetans, are shown in fig. 2.”

“The name Chin-ch'uan during the Han period was applied to a tribe of the southern Man. During the Ming period, a lama monk of the Chin-ch'uan Monastery named Hai-mai was invested as Monk of the Transformation with hereditary domain in the Chin-ch'uan region. Subsequently his descendants (evidently he was a marrying monk) multiplied and spread out to inhabit the drainage area of the Chin Ch'uan or Gold River. During the early Ch'ing period when feudatories were conferred by the Manchu rulers, this region was divided up into the Ta-chin-ch'uan or Great Gold River, and the Hsiao-chin-ch'uan or Little Gold River territories.”

“He professed to have twice defeated the Sungars in Outer Mongolia and Sinkiang, once suppressed the rebellion of Moslems in Turkestan, twice put down insurrections in the Chin-ch’uan region in western Szechwan, once pacified a rebellion in Taiwan (Formosa), subjugated Burma and Annam, and twice vanquished the Gurkhas.”

“Even in easternmost Kham, adjacent to China proper, Ch’ing control was not easily maintained, especially in Chin-ch’uan (rGyal-rong), where the native Bon religion was stronger than in most parts of Tibet, and where the people spoke a Tibetan language that differed substantially from the dialects of Tibet proper.”

“Ch'ang-lu merchants subscribed[...]200 000 [taels] in 1748 to the suppression of the first Chin-ch'uan rebellion in the Tibetan borderlands;[....]”

“The Ch’ing also had difficulties in the Chin-ch’uan, a very mountainous region in north-western Szechwan, where the local inhabitants, whose culture was Tibetan, rebelled from 1746-9 onwards.”

“The revolt in Chin-ch’uan in Szechwan lasted intermittently for 30 years after 1746, and the campaign which finally suppressed it, in 1771—76, is said to have cost twice as much as the wars against the Jungars.”

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