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===See also=== * Zhongyuan Basis: Zhongyuan and Central Plain may be English language synonyms for the "the cradle of Chinese civilization" definition |
→Etymology: What language is Central Plain calqued from? One potential option would be Japanese, since 中原 means 'central plain' in Japanese. But that would be silly because we assume that 'Central Plain' doesn't come from the language of an island off the Asian mainland- it comes from the langauge of the place where the Central Plain is located. That language is Mandarin Chinese. Hence I change the calque to cmn. |
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Revision as of 22:43, 13 June 2022
English
Etymology
Calque from Mandarin 中原 (Zhōngyuán).
Proper noun
- The area on the lower reaches of the Yellow River which formed the cradle of Chinese civilization.
- 1952, René Grousset, “Chinese Earth”, in The Rise and Splendour of the Chinese Empire[1], University of California Press, published 1970, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 9:
- ASIATIC civilization is the product of “Mesopotamias”, of great alluvial plains where the natural fertility of the soil stimulated man’s agricultural vocation. Such was the case of Babylon in western Asia; such is the case of the “Central Plain” of China in eastern Asia.[...]In the same way that Egypt, according to Herodotus, is a “gift of the Nile”, the Central Plain is a gift of the Yellow River and its tributaries.
- 1961, William Watson, “Introduction”, in China Before the Han Dynasty (Ancient Peoples and Places)[2], New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 11:
- Within the larger sphere of eastern Asia the Chinese people as we know it today is better defined by language and culture than in anthropological terms. In general a distinction of the physical type may be observed north and south of the Yangtze river, a boundary which corresponded in early times to a cultural division between the relatively advanced civilisation of the Central Plain and the more primitive south.
- 1980, Li Xueqin, The Wonder of Chinese Bronzes (中国青铜器的奥秘)[3], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 77:
- The bronzes from a tomb of the Western Zhou at Yiqi, Tunxi, also have some of their own peculiar designs, such as a gui with a weaving pattern commonly seen on bamboo-woven articles of south China, but rarely encountered in the Central Plain.
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