Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "In China, at least since the middle of Tang Dynasty, the phrase of Mulberry Fields (Hanzi=桑田; pinyin=sāngtián; Japanese=souden) is become a metonimia for the land which was or will be covered by oceans. This term is often used in Chinese literature and poetry, for example in Zuo Zhuan (comment for Chun Qiu) about the death of Duke Jing of Jin which mention the \"Shaman of Mulberry Fields\" (Chinese: 桑田巫; pinyin: sāngtián wū). Along with the \"blue seas\" phrase, since Han Dynasty, these two phrases were combined into an idiom that has meaning about changing.The mathematic book shushù jìyí 数术记遗 (shushù jìyí) by Xu Yue from Han Dynasty mentioned an idea about the turning of blue seas into mulberry fields. Yan Zhenqing, in his literature Magu Shan Xiantan Ji (痲姑山仙墰記), wrote that on the high tops of Mount Magu could still be found the clam and oyster shells, and he also mentioned about the gardens and fields which once were under the water."@en }
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- Mulberry_fields_(idiom) abstract "In China, at least since the middle of Tang Dynasty, the phrase of Mulberry Fields (Hanzi=桑田; pinyin=sāngtián; Japanese=souden) is become a metonimia for the land which was or will be covered by oceans. This term is often used in Chinese literature and poetry, for example in Zuo Zhuan (comment for Chun Qiu) about the death of Duke Jing of Jin which mention the \"Shaman of Mulberry Fields\" (Chinese: 桑田巫; pinyin: sāngtián wū). Along with the \"blue seas\" phrase, since Han Dynasty, these two phrases were combined into an idiom that has meaning about changing.The mathematic book shushù jìyí 数术记遗 (shushù jìyí) by Xu Yue from Han Dynasty mentioned an idea about the turning of blue seas into mulberry fields. Yan Zhenqing, in his literature Magu Shan Xiantan Ji (痲姑山仙墰記), wrote that on the high tops of Mount Magu could still be found the clam and oyster shells, and he also mentioned about the gardens and fields which once were under the water.".