hsikang

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1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Sikang (China).

   “24. K'ANG-TING-TATSIENLU 打箭鑪 (12, 13, 25, 26) The city of K’ang-ting, better known to the western reader as Tatsienlu, is the provincial capital of Hsikang. The district of K’ang-ting, which is governed from the city of the same name, covers a very wide area extending over parts of both the Ta-tu valley and the Ya-lung valley.”

2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Sigang (Taiwan).

   “After passing over Hsikang, Tainan, the aircraft flew southward along A577.”

   “6. I visited this jiao festival with introductions from Fiorella Allio, now the authority on the Xigang festival, who was already studying the Ox-Plow Song troupe. At Xigang (Hsikang), people commonly use the term kua-hiuⁿ (T.), as Allio does, the term jiao being reserved for the Daoist rituals narrowly speaking.”

   “The helicopter had been brought by truck to an open field in Tainan County's Hsikang township for testing. The testing process had not involved anything out of the ordinary, though the cause of the crash had yet to be determined, Lin said.”

   “The research project presented with the social and cultural impacts of a series of transformations and disasters that occurred in the area situated in the east of the Hsikang district in Tainan, still remembered today as the “13 zhuang area”. In 1784, this grouping of villages initiated the performance of the famous religious celebration now called Hsikang koah-hiu occurring ever since every three years, and which was classified in 2009 as a national intangible cultural heritage element.”