Hsiangfen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 襄汾 (Xiāngfén), Wade–Giles romanization: Hsiang¹-fên².
Senses: examples: text: Palaeolithic implements have been recovered from 1953 in the Ordos and in Shansi. The most important site is Tingtsun in Hsiangfen county of the latter province. Here were found an abundant fossil fauna, three hominid teeth and over two thousand artefacts of a type more advanced than those of Pithecanthropus pekinensis.
ref: 1960, Alan Houghton Brodrick, “The Pithecanthropoids”, in Man and His Ancestry, London: The Scientific Book Club, →OCLC, page 134:
text: Tingtsun Man. This was discovered in November 1954 in Tingtsun Village, Hsiangfen County, Shansi Province in north-central China.
ref: 1961, Sidney H. Gould, editor, Sciences in Communist China: A Symposium Presented at the New York Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, December 26-27, 1960, Washington, D.C.: American Association of the Advancement of Science, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 134:
text: Excavations made since China's liberation in 1949 have unearthed more human fossils and artifacts of palaeolithic times. The site at Tingtsun in Hsiangfen County, Shansi Province, is of particular interest in this connection.
ref: 1963 January 18, Hsia Nai, “Archaeology in New China”, in Peking Review, volume VI, number 3, →OCLC, page 13, column 1:
text: Out from Houma across the hills is Hsiangfen county, which has as one of its villages the Ting Tsun, where in these last few years an archæological team from the Academy of Sciences in Peking has carried out exploration and has uncovered three human teeth in a gravel seam estimated to be of a period 200,000 years ago.
ref: 1966 March, Rewi Alley, “Ancient Sites around Houma in Southern Shansi”, in Eastern Horizon, volume V, number 3, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44, column 2:
text: Comrade Chai told us on our way back to the commune headquarters: “The South Shansi Opera Troupe of Hsiangfen County will present two operas. One is a new opera called Red Heart, a modern theme opera about an outstanding commune member who looks after his brigade’s draught animals, and the other is a play about trapping Kuomintang agents called On the Sea Front.
ref: 1966 April 1, “At Home with Yangtan Members”, in Peking Review, volume 9, number 14, →OCLC, page 29, column 2:
text: In 1954 P’ei directed the Tingts’un excavations at Hsiangfen, Shansi, where a new paleolithic assemblage, including three hominid teeth, was found. An analysis of the teeth revealed that Tingts’un Man was phylogenetically situated between Peking Man and Modern Man and was close to the Neanderthals, especially Ordos Man. A summary of the Tingts’un finds, by P’ei and others, appeared in 1958 under the title Shan-hsi Hsiang-fen hsien Ting-ts’un chiu-shih-ch’i shih-tai i-chih fa-chueh pao-kao [report on the excavations of the paleolithic site at Tingts’un in Hsiangfen hsien, Shansi].
ref: 1970, “P’ei Wen-chung [裴文中]”, in Howard L. Boorman, Richard C. Howard, editors, Biographical Dictionary of Republican China, volume III, New York; London: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 68, column 2:
english: 裴文中
translation: 裴文中
text: Hog-raising has developed rapidly in the third production team of the (Chihhui) production brigade, (Taokun) commune, Hsiangfen County since 1971 when a collective hog farm was established.
ref: 1974 December 13 [1974 December 7], “Shansi Team Thrives After Establishing Collective Hog Farm”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 241, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: North Region, page K 1:
text: Most significant of all was the discovery of "Tingtsun Man” in 1954, at Tingtsun Village, Hsiangfen County, Shansi Province. The site yielded three juvenile teeth along with great numbers of stone tools and fossil vertebrates.
ref: 1975, Chia Lan-po [贾兰坡], “Human palaeontology and archaeology in China”, in The Cave Home of Peking Man [“北京人”之家], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 48:
english: “北京人”之家
translation: “北京人”之家
text: Hsiangfen County CCP Committee has launched the cadres and masses to study Chairman Mao's teachings and criticize the revisionist program of "taking the three instructions as the key link" pushed by the unrepentant capitalist roaders in the party.
ref: 1976 February 26 [1976 February 25], “Shansi County Criticism Aids Tachai Emulation”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 39, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: North Region, page K 2:
text: Before the double ninth festival [ninth day of ninth lunar month], Hsiangfen County, Shansi Province, saw a promising year--the output of all autumn grain crops increased 10 percent.
ref: 1978 October 24 [1978 October 15], “Shansi Commune Rejects County Directive, Earns Greater Income”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 206, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original by Ma Ho-ching (in Chinese), →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: North Region, page K 3:
glosses: Alternative form of Xiangfen.