Meaning of Cishan | Babel Free

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1. A Neolithic culture in northern China.
2. A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

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“Major archaeological finds of the last three decades include the earliest known sites along the Yellow River valley. Some of these sites are classified as belonging to the Cishan culture, after the type site in Wu’an, Hebei Province, and others to the Peiligang culture, after their type site in Xinzheng, Henan Province; both are datable between about 5500 and 5000 B.C.[…] But a few are comb-marked, and at certain Cishan sites, some cord-marked or painted ones have been found. The common vessels are bowls, round-bottomed or with three short legs; deep, wide-mouthed jars; pots with two tiny lugs; caldrons with three or four legs (ding); and, in settlements of the Cishan culture, straight-walled, flat-bottomed jars (yu) and flat-topped, hollow pot supports.”

“Domesticated millets — Setaria italica and Panicum miliaceum — appear a little later than rice in the archaeological record, around 6500-5000 BCE in sites of the Peiligang, Cishan and related cultures, in the mid Huang He river valley, the Wei river valley and the upper Han river valley in northern China.”

“In Manchuria, changes in subsistence and sedentism can be traced through time and between regions. Interpretations of millet cultivation in Manchuria vary, but in general the sites are regarded as related to and derivative from the Cishan culture.”

“Taiwan Red Cross members escort rescued residents who were trapped following Typhoon Morakot, to receive medical care in Cishan, Taiwan, 12 August 2009. Taiwan soldiers on 12 August found 70 more survivors from a village buried by a mudslide, bringing to 1,000 the number of people found alive in mountain region affected by landslides in the southern county of Kaohsiung.”

“In Cishan, a storm-ravaged town of 41,000, both road bridges had collapsed, smashing houses and taking down cars. Residents jammed a footbridge which remained standing.”

“The trail runs relatively wide and flat most of the way, skirting the northern slopes of the deep, V-shaped Cishan River (旗山溪) valley.”

“We gathered 500 turmeric buds from Cishan District of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan in February 2008.”

““Bike to Remember” is a cycling event in Cishan District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan and has been held for 5 times already. The event is created in memory a typhoon that destroyed a great part of this area. Although the area has now been rebuilt the organizers wanted later generations to know about the disaster and they encouraged participants to write a brief ‘feeling’ paragraph on Facebook after the competitive activity had finished.”

“Taiwan has confirmed the country's first case of the highly pathogenic H5N5 strain of avian influenza on a duck farm in Cishan District, Kaohsiung, Council of Agriculture (COA) Deputy Minister Huang Chin-cheng (黃金城) said Monday.”

“They now have more sewing machines than technicians, so they plan to allow residents from Cishan and Meinong to use them in training programs.”

“Tu talked about his connections in the Kaohsiung area, and agreed to recruit people in Taiwan’s armed forces to gain access to confidential military material in exchange for money, prosecutors said. Tu recruited retired sergeant major Wang Jui-chi (王瑞祺), who was in charge of an ammunition depot in Kaohsiung’s Cishan District (旗山) while he was in the Army Logistics Command, they said. Tu introduced Wang to the Chinese officials and Dong gave Tu cash to give to Wang, they said.”

“Military points of interest named in the report include the Taiwanese navy's Haifeng Brigade, an ammunition depot in Cishan, located near the southern city of Kaohsiung, Taiwan's Military Police Command headquarters, and the Army Logistics Training Center.”

“Nansheng Community (南勝社區) in Kaohsiung’s Cishan District (旗山) is one of the few places where there’s been an effort to attract bats, each of which may catch 1,200 mosquitoes per night. Around 70 bat houses were installed across a 1-hectare patch of land, resulting in a noticeable reduction in mosquito numbers, Public Television Service (PTS, 公共電視) reported on July 25, 2019.”

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