| 释义 |
‖ t'ien|tiɛn|
Also 7 tayn, 8 tyen, 8– tien.
[Chinese tiān.]
In Chinese thought: Heaven; the Deity.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage iv. xvi. 373 All being a rude and vnformed Chaos, Tayn (say they) framed and setled the Heaven and Earth. 1710Memoires for Rome concerning State Christian Relig. China iii. 71 He would not retract, nor acknowledge that Tien, that is to say, the visible Heavens was the God of the Christians. 1747Astley's New Gen. Coll. Voy. IV. i. v. 202/1 It appears..that this Tyen, or first Being, is the Creator of all Things. 1788tr. Grosier's Gen. Descr. China II. vi. i. 186 Between the Tien and man there is a relation. 1878Jrnl. North-China Branch R. Asiatic Soc. XII. 122 Even in the time of Confucius the change from the personality of T'ien-tsze to the abstract idea of the modern T'ien does not seem to have been complete. 1904Athenæum 17 Sept. 373/2 The Chinese Emperor is not regarded as other than the regent of the empire appointed by t'ien or heaven. 1940E. Pound Cantos liv. 39 The rites of Tien, that is Heaven Were ploughing and the raising of silk worms. 1958W. Willetts Chinese Art I. ii. 92 After the Chou displaced the Shang-Yin, they apparently came to equate the old Shang Ti with their own chief deity T‘ien. |