Fengtu

See also: fēngtú and fēngtǔ

English

Proper noun

Fengtu

  1. Alternative form of Fengdu.
    • 1920, R. O. Jolliffe, “The Field”, in Our West China Mission: Being a Somewhat Extensive Summary by the Missionaries on the Field of the Work during the First Twenty-five Years of the Canadian Methodist Mission in the Province of Szechwan, Western China‎[1], Toronto: Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, →OCLC, page 108:
      FENGTU COUNTY lies mostly to the north of the Yangtse, and has over 100 market towns.
    • 1925 January, A. C. Hyde Lay., “Die Lorelei in China.”, in Blackwood's Magazine‎[2], volume CCXVII, number MCCCXI, New York: Leonard Scott Publication Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 95:
      The last stretch, from K'uei Fu to Chungking, is soothing to the eye after the harsh vistas of the Gorges. […]
      Fengtu, a celebrated town, which owes all its fame to being situated at the foot of the Sacred Mountain of the Son of Heaven, is the residence of the Emperor of the Dead. Just as the Emperor of the Living resided at Peking, the Emperor of the Dead has some occult existence here. When any Taoist believer dies, a priest writes a despatch to the Imperial Headquarters at Fengtu, and the communication is solemnly burnt, this being the convenient means of transit.
    • 1971 December 16 [1971 December 14], “Szechwan Industries Promote Support-Agriculture Activities”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 242, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengtu Szechwan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Southwest Region, page E 1:
      The Fengtu County agricultural tool cooperative plant improved heavy plows for use in mountain areas and produced water pumps. Between January and September this year the plant produced about 20,000 iron farm tools.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Fengtu.
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