Jingang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 金剛山／金刚山 (Jīngāngshān).

Jingang

1. Synonym of Kumgang: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • 1983 July 29 [1983 July 28], Zhou Bizhong, “The People Yearn for Reunification”, in Daily Report: China‎, volume I, number 147, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing RENMIN RIBAO, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, page D 3:

     In the city of Jiangyuanaogao [3068 0626 6670 7559], located at the foot of the Jingang [6855 9474] Mountains not far from the northern border of the military demarcation line, was the Sanripu [0005 2480 3184] cooperative farm.

   • 2001, Jiazi Chen [陈家紫], 奇瑰异采 : 张大千: The Enigmatic Genius‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, column 1:

     In 1927, Chang visited Mount Jingang in Korea and met 15-year-old Chunhong.

   • 2008, Chu Shulong, Lin Xinzhu, “The Six Party Talks: A Chinese Perspective”, in Asian Perspective‎, volume 32, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     […] in southern China; and North Korea has set up its own "special zones" in the Jingang Mountain area bordering South Korea, and in the Xinyizhou […]

   • 2010 [8th century], Tessa Morris-Suzuki, quoting Chengguan, “On the Move”, in To the Diamond Mountains: A Hundred-Year Journey Through China and Korea‎, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 16:

     Diamond Mountain is a mountain called Jingang [in Chinese; pronounced Kumgang in Korean] located in the east of Haidong [Silla]. Although it is not wholly made of gold [jin], up, down, all around, and when you go into the mountain's precints it is all gold in the midsts of the sands of the flowing waters. When you look at it from a distance, the whole thing is golden.

   • 2017, Pedith Pui Chan, quoting Yu Jianhua, “The Appropriation of New Cultural Capital”, in The Making of a Modern Art World: Institutionalisation and Legitimisation of Guohua in Republican Shanghai‎, sourced from "Ji Zhang Daqian huazhan", 17, Shenbao, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 153:

     [Zhang Daqian's] Landscape paintings are the best, with regard to both quality and quantity. […] Fifteen life-paintings of the Jingang Mountains in Korea were particularly impressive. Daqian is fond of travelling.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Jingang.