长干

長干
Chánggān
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Changgan, an old quarter of Nanjing south of the Qinhuai River, home to boatmen and merchants

Examples

HSK 7-9
Gǔshíhou, Chánggān zhù zhe hěnduō shāngrén hé chuánfū.
In ancient times many merchants and boatmen lived in Changgan.
HSK 7-9
Lǐ Bái de 《 Chánggān xíng 》 xiě de shì Chánggān yí duì qīngméi-zhúmǎ de fūqī.
Li Bai's 'Song of Changgan' is about a husband and wife from Changgan who were childhood sweethearts.

Tips

culture
Two Tang poems made the name famous: in 李白's 《长干行》 a young wife looks back on growing up there with her husband, and 崔颢's four 《长干曲》 are songs of the river people. 里 in 长干里 means 'lanes; neighbourhood'.
history
干 is read gān here. It is traditionally explained as an old southern word for the strip of land between hills, which is where the long lanes of the quarter ran.

Stroke Order

长 cháng
干 gān