Yuan-tsi-Khai and Chan-chi-Tung are the two most prominent men of modern China.
Chan-chi-Tung is a peace-loving man, an ardent follower of the doctrine of Confucius, and strongly attached to the national principles of morality.
The scenery about Ta-tung is very fine--lightly wooded hills gradually rising, range after range, far into the interior.
The southern provinces, and especially Kwang-tung and Kwang-si, constituted the area of the struggle.
Ming, through the persecution and exactions of the invader, abandoned their homes and sought refuge in the southern parts of Kwang-tung and Kwang-se, the two most southerly provinces of China.
His ancestors, originally from the north-east boundary of the Kwang-tung province, soon after the complete subjugation of the Chinese by the Manchoo Tartars, A.
About the same period he sent to Kwang-tung for his whole family, giving as his reason, that a pestilence would shortly visit the earth, and carry off the unbelievers.
My father was appointed by Viceroy Chang Chih Tung to investigate the matter.
Chang Chih Tung replied that we had plenty of time for reform, and that if we were in too great a hurry, we should not accomplish anything at all.
I thought that I could be happy with my son as the Emperor Tung Chi, but unfortunately he died before he was twenty years of age.
Today the Ts'ao-tung sect is differentiated from the Lin-chi primarily by its methods for teaching novices.
The Ts'ao-tung sect, at least in its early forms, was fully as dialectical in outlook as was the Lin-chi.
Thus Eliot suggests the Ts'ao-tung took something of an interest in what you do, in distinction to the Lin-chi school, which preferred to focus on inner wisdom.
In the fall Ju-ching conferred upon Dogen the seal of patriarchal succession of his line of the Ts'ao-tung sect.
Whereas the Lin-chi and the Ts'ao-tung were destined to survive and find their way to Japan, the three other houses were treated less kindly by history.
The difference was that Ts'ao-tung masters believed quiet meditation was the way, rather than the mind-shattering techniques of Lin-chi.
The ultimate concern of both the Ts'ao-tung and Lin-chi doctrines was enlightenment.
The Ts'ao-tung master Cheng-chueh, with whom he argued, believed that enlightenment could be achieved through sitting motionless and slowly bringing tranquillity and empty nonattachment to the mind.
Shansi and Shensi, until it finds an outlet eastwards at Tung Kwan--a pass which for centuries has been renowned as the gate of Asia, being indeed the sole commercial passage between central China and the West.
But Tung remained obdurate, and the Empress reluctantly yielded and dismissed Hu to private life, where he has ever since remained.
Sniper firing all day from Tung Fu Hsiang’s troops, especially at the customs position in the Mongol market.
Giers, down through his whole legation, the professors of Russian in the Imperial University and Tung Wen Kuan, the officers and clerks of the Russo-Chinese bank, one can find none who are not perfect gentlemen and most agreeable companions.
Coltman Accompanies Governor Hu as Special Commissioner to Investigate—Anti-Foreign Feeling Expressed by Generals of Tung Fu’s Army—A Bargain with Prince Tuan 1 II.
Prince Tuan, Jung Lee and General Tungare in control of public affairs.
General Tung Fu Hsiang, the man who was to prove the curse of China, was unacquainted with all these circumstances, and had yet to be heard from.
As soon as Tung Fu Hsiang learned of Colonel Chao’s degradation, he was wild with rage, taking the view at once that the insult was not only upon Chao but also upon himself.
The Empress Dowager desires Tung Fu Hsiang and Jung Lu to send her with an army to Hsianfu, the capital of Shansi.
The following division of property is made between the eldest son Shu-tung and the third son Shu-shan.
The division is necessary because the families of Shu-tung and Shu-shan have become so large that it is no longer convenient for them all to live together.
But even this act of devotion was outdone by a man named Tung Tao-ming of the Sung dynasty, who is said to have caused himself to be buried alive for three days in his mother's grave.
One of the largest Buddhist temples is that known as Tou Shan Ssŭ, situated on a hill overlooking the village of Tung Tou Shan.
I bought this land and now the Tung family is trying to steal it from me," complains a petitioner.
All that remains of this property after these charges have been met is to be equally divided between the first and third sons T'sung Shu-tung and Ts'ung Shu-shan.
This deed is made out in duplicate, in order that Shu-tung and Shu-shan may each possess an original and hold it as his just title to the property allotted to him.
When he came to Li Shan near Weihaiwei he was glad to find a kindred spirit in one Tung Tso-ch'ang, with whom he exchanged poems and essays.
This range, which may be traced from the Amur to the Sea of Okhotsk, seems to be cleft twice by the Sungari and to be continued under different local names in the same south-westerly direction to the peninsula of Liao-tung in Manchuria.
The lower part of both rivers forms the boundary of Keng Tung state.
The early history of Keng Tung is very obscure, but Burmese influence seems to have been maintained since the latter half, at any rate, of the 16th century.
Then the Governor of Han-tung came out to meet us, on a silver saddle with tassels of gold that reached to the ground.
As I have already said, I did not hesitate even to propose the return of Port Arthur and Kwang-tung to China and the sale of the southern branch of the Eastern Chinese Railway.
Without command of the sea, moreover, they could not risk a landing on the Liao-tung peninsula, but would have to march through Korea, and that would give us time for concentration.
Annam (Chinese, Annan) comprehends the country of Cochin-China and Tung king.
The Mei ling mountains, which divide the province Kwang tung from the province Keang se.
By an edict of the "Son of Heaven," the Governor-general of Kwang tung and Kwang se Pih, ling was recompensed for his merits.
A very large trading vessel called Teaou fa, coming back laden with goods from Annam and Tung king,[52] had a desperate skirmish with the pirates.
The foreign trade of Cochin-China and Tungking is almost exclusively with China, that to Siam, Singapur, and Malacca, being inconsiderable.
The import duties from the sea-side with measurement of foreign vessels is said in the Kwang tung tsuen too, p.
On the sixteenth day of the seventh moon, the pirates attacked a village near Tung kwan.
Should the Bridge of the Camel Back be passable, five and forty might suffice," mused Lao Tung to himself.
Before going abroad Lee Tung Foo had sung in all the larger cities of the United States.
Lee Tung Foo, or Frank Lee, as he was called, went to the Mission Sunday school and with the rest of the pupils learned to sing some of the Gospel hymns in his way.
Illustration: LEE TUNG FOO Pupil in the 90's] After I changed my studio to Thirteenth street he worked for the family of Mr. H.
New York, talks of our Nobel English Tung "being disfigured," and says I ought to be haild as a deliverer!
My breath was taken away when the official placed his finger upon the character indicating the city, and I learned for the first time that we were twelve miles from the Yang-Tse-Kiang and on the channel connecting with Tung Ting Lake.
By the time we arrived at Poa Tung we were so road-bruised that we were compelled to knock off our journey and devote two entire days to the application of poultices and hot water to our swollen and blistered feet.
Limpang-Tung hath lured a melody out of the stream and stolen its anthem from the forest; for him the wind hath cried in lonely places and the ocean sung its dirges.
Limpang-Tung is lesser than the gods, and doth not understand.
There is music for Limpang-Tung in the sounds of the moving of grass and in the voices of the people that lament or in the cry of them that rejoice.
Go out into the starry night, and Limpang-Tung will dance with thee who danced since the gods were young, the god of mirth and of melodious minstrels.
And Limpang-Tung said: "Lest men grow weary down on the great Worlds through gazing always at a changeless sky, I will paint my pictures in the sky.
But through the mists towards morning, in the dark when the minstrels sleep and mirth and melody have sunk to rest, Limpang-Tung goeth back again to his mountain land.
There Limpang Tung sought it and the cock called to him through the darkness as he went, until at last he found the golden ball.
Then Limpang Tung went up into Pegana and gave it to the Dawnchild, who played with the moon no more.
Limpang Tung shall seek among the birds and shall not find it when the cock is mute, and up the valleys shall go Umborodom to seek among the crags.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tung" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
