zouchengとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鄒城 / 邹城 (Zōuchéng).

発音

• IPA: /(d)zoʊˈt͡ʃʌŋ/, enPR: dzōʹchǔngʹ
• ハイフネーション: Zou‧cheng

固有名詞

Zoucheng

1. A county-level city of Jining, Shandong, China.
   • 1992 November 18, Dou Guangsheng (4535 1639 3932) [窦广生], “Forum Discusses Public Order on Key Railways”, in Daily Report: China, number 223, sourced from Beijing XINHUA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, National Affairs, page 21, column 2:

     Officials from Hengyang City, Guizhou Province, Shandong's Zoucheng City, and seven other units briefed the forum participants about experiences in improving public order on railways.

   • 2002, 韦黎明 [Wei Liming], 中国的丝绸 [The Land of Silk]‎, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 22:

     In addition, silk fabrics found in the tomb of a local scholar by the name of Li Yu’an in Zoucheng County, Shandong Province, date back to 1231.

   • 2006, David J. Lynch, “Discontent in China Boils into Public Protest”, in China (Global Studies)‎, 11th edition, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, →OL, page 155:

     In November 2003, thousands of people in Zoucheng, Shandong province, stormed a government building, smashing windows and office equipment, after a sidewalk vendor was accidentally run over when city officials tried to enforce a new policy against such sales.

   • 2006, James Kynge, China Shakes the World: The Rise of a Hungry Nation‎, Orion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 149:

     The link between man and nature that Mencius made is as valid today as it was more than 2,000 years ago. His home town, a place called Zoucheng in a corner of Shandong province, wears the strain of population upon its sleeve.

   • [2011, Ssu-ma Ch'ien, edited by William H. Nienhauser, Jr., The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume IX: The Memoirs of Han China‎, volume II, published 2019, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page [5]:

     Tsou 騶 is written as 芻 in Han shu, 52.2394. The county of Tsou was about ten miles southeast of modern Tsou-ch'eng 鄒城 county in Shantung.]

   • 2016 December 20, Meng Meng, Josephine Mason, Muyu Xu, Josephine Mason, “City in China's Shandong province orders coal power plants to cut output due to smog -notice”, in Kenneth Maxwell, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 10 April 2023‎:

     In a notice reviewed by Reuters, the environmental regulator of Zoucheng city in Shandong, a province known for both its farming and industrial facilities, ordered at least 30 companies to either cut output by 60 percent or shut completely.

   • 2017 July, “The Sage and the People: The Confucian Revival in China”, in The Journal of Religion‎, volume 97, number 3, University of Chicago Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 419:

     In contrast to the official “rites devoid of ritual spirit” (223), during the top-down initiatives celebrating Confucius’s 2,558th birthday in 2007, ritual ceremonies organized by grassroots Confucian activists at the Confucius temple in Nishan and the Mencius temple in Zoucheng a few days after the official festival testified to the existence of a true ritual community, rediscovering or reinventing Confucian rituals, mostly through ancient texts. The authors believe that it is the emergence of this new ritualism among the people that will pave the way for a ritual reconstruction of Confucianism.

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tsowhsien or Tsou-hsien”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1954, column 2
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zoucheng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3573, column 3