Shigu is usually the
atonal
Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key. ''Atonality'', in this sense, usually describes compositions written from about the early 20th-century to the present day, where a hierarchy of harmonies focusing on ...
pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, officially the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. ''Hanyu'' () literally means 'Han Chinese, Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while ''pinyin' ...
romanization
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of
Chinese
Chinese may refer to:
* Something related to China
* Chinese people, people identified with China, through nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
**Han Chinese, East Asian ethnic group native to China.
**'' Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic ...
words and names, particularly (''shígǔ''), "stone
drum
The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a ...
(s)".
It may refer to:
Places
China
*
Shigu District
Shigu District () is an urban District of China, district of Hengyang, Hengyang City, Hunan, Hunan province, China. The district is located in the middle north of the city proper, it is bordered by Zhuhui District to the east, Yanfeng District to ...
, Hengyang, Hunan
*
Shigu Railway Station, in Dongguan, Guangdong
*
Shigu, Fujian, in
Yongchun County
Yongchun (; Min Nan: Éng-chhun; lit. 'eternal spring') is a county in western Quanzhou city of southern Fujian province, People's Republic of China, located on the upper reaches of the Jin River. It is under the administration of Quanzhou City. ...
, Fujian
*
Shigu, Guangdong, in
Gaozhou
Gaozhou is a county-level city in southwestern Guangdong Province, China. Formerly the primary city in the area, it is now administered as part of the prefecture-level city of Maoming. As of the 2020 census, Gaozhou had a population of 1,328, ...
, Guangdong
*
Shigu, Henan (), in
Changge
Changge () is a county-level city under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Xuchang, in the central part of central Henan Province, China. In the Han dynasty, it was known as Changshe (). It ranges in latitude from 34° 09' to 34° ...
, Henan
*
Shigu, Hubei, in
Danjiangkou
Danjiangkou () is a county-level city in northwestern Hubei, China, bordering Henan province to the northeast. The city spans an area of 3,121 square kilometers, and has a population of approximately 478,000 as of 2017.
Etymology
Danjiangkou tr ...
, Hubei
*
Shigu, Hunan, in Xiangtan County, Hunan
*
Shigu, Shaanxi, in
Weibin District, Baoji, Shaanxi
*
Shigu, Sichuan (), in Shifang, Deyang, Sichuan
*
Shigu, Yunnan, in
Yulong County, Yunnan
*
Shigu Township, Guang'an, in
Yuechi County
Yuechi County () is a county in the east of Sichuan province, China, bordering Chongqing Municipality to the south. It is administratively governed by the prefecture-level city of Guang'an.
The place is accessible by bus from Chengdu and Nanchon ...
, Guang'an, Sichuan
*
Shigu Township, Yibin, in
Cuiping District
Cuiping () is the core urban district of the city of Yibin in Sichuan Province, People's Republic of China, located at the confluence of the Jinsha and Min Rivers, which form the Yangtze here. It was formerly the county-level city of Yibin unti ...
,
Yibin
Yibin ( zh, s=宜宾 , t=宜賓 , p=Yíbīn , w=I-pin, region=CN-SC-15; Sichuanese Pinyin: ȵi2bin1; Sichuanese pronunciation: ) is a prefecture-level city in the southeastern part of Sichuan province, China, located at the junction of the Min ...
, Sichuan
*
Shigu Township, Ziyang Shigu is usually the atonal pinyin romanization of Chinese words and names, particularly (''shígǔ''), "stone drum(s)".
It may refer to:
Places
China
*Shigu District, Hengyang, Hunan
* Shigu Railway Station, in Dongguan, Guangdong
* Shigu, Fuji ...
, in
Anyue County
Anyue () is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Ziyang in southeastern Sichuan
Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the w ...
, Ziyang, Sichuan
Elsewhere
*
Shigu, Ghana
Shigu is a community in Tamale Metropolitan District in the Northern Region of Ghana
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and sh ...
, a community in Tamale Metropolitan District, Northern Region, Ghana
Arts
* ''Shigu'', the
Stone Drums of Qin
The Stone Drums of Qin or Qin Shi Gu () are ten granite boulders bearing the oldest known "stone" inscriptions in ancient Chinese (much older inscriptions on pottery, bronzes and the oracle bones exist). Because these inscribed stones are shaped r ...
, the oldest known stone inscriptions in China
* ''Shigu'', the Chinese name of the 2015 film ''
Lost and Love''
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