Tung mun and the East Gate
Feb 5, 2009 8:40:36 GMT -5
Post by drbilljohnson on Feb 5, 2009 8:40:36 GMT -5
In researching my Gr. Grandmother, an Assembly of God missionary to China, there is an old article I have found from 1914 saying that she was taking leadership of the "East Gate" Pentecostal Mission in Canton starting May 1, 1914.
In her diary of 1915 (I don't have her diary of 1914), she keeps talking about "Tung Mun" in or near Canton as her home base. Once she spelled it "Tung Moon."
I have done a web search for "Tung Mun"and Canton but I have been unable to find it, but I did find this quote about another city:
"After leaving the Confucian temple, and as we walk the
entire length of Tung-mun-keae, — East-gate street, the prin-
cipal one within the walls, ""
www.archiveorg/stream/chinajapanandvoy00lawruoft/chinajapanandvoy00lawruoft_djvu.txt
Another quote:
The parts of the city adjacent to this gate, and to the Tung-mun, or " East Gate," at which we next arrived, were occupied exclusively by Tartars, many of whom were practicing archery at a target in a military exercising-ground below, and who desisted from their exercise in order to gain a view of the unexpected visitor as I passed.
www.fohkien.cn/FujianHistory/george_smith.htm
And a third quote from this board:
The 2nd branch of Zhonggui [who, or his descendants] moved from hainanzha xaing of Dongguan county to two places in Xiangshan (Dongmen [east gate],
siyigenealogy.proboards28.com/index.cgi?board=names&action=display&thread=115
"Dongmen" wouldn't be too much phonetically different from "Tung mun."
What I was wondering is am I correct in assuming that "Tung-mun" means East Gate in Chinese so the English article from 1914 saying she is at the East Gate mission is saying the same thing she says when she writes in her diary about being at the mission at Tung Mun?
Bill Johnson
In her diary of 1915 (I don't have her diary of 1914), she keeps talking about "Tung Mun" in or near Canton as her home base. Once she spelled it "Tung Moon."
I have done a web search for "Tung Mun"and Canton but I have been unable to find it, but I did find this quote about another city:
"After leaving the Confucian temple, and as we walk the
entire length of Tung-mun-keae, — East-gate street, the prin-
cipal one within the walls, ""
www.archiveorg/stream/chinajapanandvoy00lawruoft/chinajapanandvoy00lawruoft_djvu.txt
Another quote:
The parts of the city adjacent to this gate, and to the Tung-mun, or " East Gate," at which we next arrived, were occupied exclusively by Tartars, many of whom were practicing archery at a target in a military exercising-ground below, and who desisted from their exercise in order to gain a view of the unexpected visitor as I passed.
www.fohkien.cn/FujianHistory/george_smith.htm
And a third quote from this board:
The 2nd branch of Zhonggui [who, or his descendants] moved from hainanzha xaing of Dongguan county to two places in Xiangshan (Dongmen [east gate],
siyigenealogy.proboards28.com/index.cgi?board=names&action=display&thread=115
"Dongmen" wouldn't be too much phonetically different from "Tung mun."
What I was wondering is am I correct in assuming that "Tung-mun" means East Gate in Chinese so the English article from 1914 saying she is at the East Gate mission is saying the same thing she says when she writes in her diary about being at the mission at Tung Mun?
Bill Johnson