# Hsikang
## English
### Etymology 1

From Mandarin 西康 (Xīkāng), Wade–Giles romanization: Hsi¹-kʻang¹.

#### Proper noun

Hsikang
* Alternative form of Sikang (China).
** 1967, Chêng Tê-kʻun, Archaeological Studies in Szechwan‎, Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page 44‎:24. K'ANG-TING-TATSIENLU 打箭鑪 (12, 13, 25, 26) The city of K’ang-ting, better known to the western reader as Tatsienlu, is the provincial capital of Hsikang. The district of K’ang-ting, which is governed from the city of the same name, covers a very wide area extending over parts of both the Ta-tu valley and the Ya-lung valley.

### Etymology 2

From Mandarin 西港 (Xīgǎng), Wade–Giles romanization: Hsi¹-kang³.

#### Proper noun

Hsikang
* Alternative form of Sigang (Taiwan).
** 1994, David K. Jordan, “The Popular Practice of Religion”, in Cultural Change in Postwar Taiwan‎, Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 138–139:The fieldwork areas include (1) the pseudonymous village of Bao-an, in Tainan County and its adjacent market town of Hsikang, home of a large triennial regional chiao festival that includes Bao-an and most villages around it;[...] In 1965 I settled into the comparatively wealthy village of Bao-an, just north of Tainan City.[...]An astonishing proportion of village people had replaced their old houses with new ones built of better materials, often two stories high. And the “agricultural’’ township of Hsikang now boasted enough factories to sponsor a two-room exposition of Hsikang manufactured goods.
** 2001 January, Investigation Report: A Serious Incident Involving a China Airlines B-18503, A300-600R Aircraft , while flying from Chiang Kai Shek International Airport to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, the pilot became incapacitated during flight.‎, Aviation Safety Council, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 8:After passing over Hsikang, Tainan, the aircraft flew southward along A577.
** 2003, Donald S. Sutton, “Notes”, in Steps of Perfection: Exorcistic Performers and Chinese Religion in Twentieth-Century Taiwan‎, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 323:6. I visited this jiao festival with introductions from Fiorella Allio, now the authority on the Xigang festival, who was already studying the Ox-Plow Song troupe. At Xigang (Hsikang), people commonly use the term kua-hiuⁿ (T.), as Allio does, the term jiao being reserved for the Daoist rituals narrowly speaking.
** 2004 April 20, “Pilot dies after unlicensed chopper crashes”, in Taipei Times‎, archived from the original on 24 September 2004:The helicopter had been brought by truck to an open field in Tainan County's Hsikang township for testing. The testing process had not involved anything out of the ordinary, though the cause of the crash had yet to be determined, Lin said.
** 2015 June 5, Chi-Yan (黃麒晏) Huang, “西港香開基十三庄之打鐵庄池府千歲研究 [A Study on Lord Chifu of Datie Village in The 13 Zhuang Area of Hsikang Koah-hiu]”, in National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan‎, archived from "103NTNT0642001". the original on 25 September 2002, 外文摘要:The research project presented with the social and cultural impacts of a series of transformations and disasters that occurred in the area situated in the east of the Hsikang district in Tainan, still remembered today as the “13 zhuang area”. In 1784, this grouping of villages initiated the performance of the famous religious celebration now called Hsikang koah-hiu occurring ever since every three years, and which was classified in 2009 as a national intangible cultural heritage element.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hsikang.

### Anagrams

* shaking, Kashing