"Lan-t'ien" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 藍田／蓝田 (Lántián) Wade–Giles romanization: Lan²-tʻien².",
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          "text": "On this king Hwâi called out all the military strength of his kingdom and led it deep into Chʻin, with whose forces another battle was fought at Lan-tʻien.²\n. . .\n² Meaning \"Indigo Fields.\" A district of the department of Hsî-an still bears the name.",
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          "ref": "1974, William Watson, Ancient China: The Discoveries of post-Liberation Chinese archaeology, New York Graphic Society, →ISBN, page 19:",
          "text": "We have imagined the habitat of Lan-tʻien Man and his palaeolithic successors to be relatively open terrain of woods and grassland.",
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          "ref": "1983, Valjean McLenighan, China, A History to 1949, Chicago: Children's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10:",
          "text": "The first real human beings in China lived about 600,000 years ago. Fossils of Gigantopithecus, a Latin name for Giant Ape, were dug up at Lan-t'ien in the early 1960s. Though they looked a lot like apes, the Lan-t'ien people were among the first of our species to make tools.",
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          "text": "Of more importance are Wang Wei's descriptions of landscapes, particularly those at his country home at Lan-t'ien southeast of Ch'ang-an.",
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          "text": "We have imagined the habitat of Lan-tʻien Man and his palaeolithic successors to be relatively open terrain of woods and grassland.",
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          "text": "The first real human beings in China lived about 600,000 years ago. Fossils of Gigantopithecus, a Latin name for Giant Ape, were dug up at Lan-t'ien in the early 1960s. Though they looked a lot like apes, the Lan-t'ien people were among the first of our species to make tools.",
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