Chinese to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature | | Chinese term or phrase: 龍溪號篇 | | The term is the title of a calligraphy scroll bearing a poem. 龍溪 is a person's style name. What is the meaning of 號in this sentence? |
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3 hrs confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1 | 號 = pseudonym
Explanation:
[ The background is here, in the second paragraph:
http://gb.artmuseum.gov.mo/showcontent2.asp?item_id=20060909... ]
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/号 号
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/漢名 漢名
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_style_name#H.C3.A0o_.28...
东坡 was the poet Su Shi's pseudonym
【 Here I translated 号 as 'alternative name':
'Su Shi (1037-1101), style-name Zi Zhan, alternative name Dong Po lay Buddhist, native of Meishan (present-day Meishan County in Sichuan). '
苏轼（1037——1101），字子瞻，号东坡居士，眉山（今四川省眉山县）人。 】
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Note added at 39 días (2009-09-20 21:20:41 GMT) Post-grading
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A pleasure Esempi. Please don't take '居士 = lay buddhist' as 'gospel' though - I have doubts about it. I see (thanks to a posting by Wherestip in the Forum) that it occurs also in Li Qing Zhao's pen-name: 易安居士 .
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| | Grading comment | Thankl you, Lai An. This was a very important answer for me. It solved a lot of problems. |
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Asker: Thank you, Lai An. This answer was extremely helpful and cleared up a lot of problems.
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