HONAN

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Honan

(dated) Alternative form of Henan, in its various senses.

"THE MIDDLE KINGDOM" was one of the earliest names given by the Chinese to designate the land which they inhabited. The use of this name with reference to China dates from the period of the Chow dynasty, about B.C. 1150. The Imperial family gave the anme to its own state Honan, because it was central to all the other states. As the empire grew the name remained and for many centuries this was one of the titles given by the natives to the entire territory ruled by their Emperor. China was believed to be central to all other nations, Honan was central in China, and it was easy to conclude that the Chinese were the most important people of the world. During the eventful millenniums of China's chequered history, rulers and statesmen deemed it wise no fewer than seventeen times to change the situation of the nation's capital. It says something for the importance of Honan that seven times out of the seventeen the honour of having one of its cities chosen as capital feel to this province.

Ju is an imperial ware of the Sung Dynasty, that takes its name from the district in Honan where it was first developed; the kiln site has not yet been firmly identified. The ware is generally believed to have been made for the Northern Sung court only from A.D. 1107 to 1127, the latter date coinciding with the enforced withdrawal of the court to Hang-chou in the south, as the result of the Chin Tartar invasion from the north.

Perhaps the most important monument of Chinese Buddhist sculpture in the Rietberg collection, this stele was acquired by Baron von der Heydt before 1924, after having been in the possession of C.T. Loo, Paris. It is most likely the work of a metropolitan sculptor's atelier located in the vicinity of present Cheng-chou in Honan Province.

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Honan

A surname.

Source: Wiktionary

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