Meaning of Tzu-kuei | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“The second major movement followed the north bank of the Yang-tzu, emerged from the Yang-tzu Gorge Mountains in the vicinity of present-day Tzu-kuei District upriver from Yi-ch'ang.”

“Tzu-kuei county, located in the depth of Hsi-ling gorge on the Yangtze River, selected Ta-chin-p'ing, 1,840 meters above sea level on Hsien-nu-feng, to build a television differential transfer station, relaying with good results the television signals, images, and sound of Wu-han, I-ch'ang, and Ching-chou in Hupeh and Ch'ang-te in Hunan.”

“Burial sites, memorial mounds and markers have also been associated with Ch'ü Yüan since at least Sung times. In the eleventh century, Su Shih noted that while the real burial site was in Tzu-kuei, there were many fictive sites throughout the central Yangtze Valley so that people who wanted to pay their respects to Ch'ü Yüan would not have to travel inconveniently long distances.”

“One myth holds that after Ch'ü Yuan drowned himself, his body was swallowed by a huge fish which swam all the way across Tung-t'ing Lake and up the Long River to the town of his birth, Tzu-kuei, in the Three Gorges, where it disgorged his body, still intact, so that it could be properly buried.”

“As he approached Tzu-kuei he was impressed by Yellow Ox Mountain, proverbially changeless, with its population of wild apes, and marvelled at the Jade Void Grotto, where the sparkling interior was formed by nature into “a thousand immortals, dragons, tigers, birds, and beasts.””

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