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Xanadu steht für: Shangdu (Yuan-Dynastie), Residenz von Kublai Khan; Xanadu (Film), US-amerikanischer Musical-Film von Robert Greenwald (1980) Xanadu (Soundtrack), Soundtrack zum Film; Xanadu (Lied), Titelsong des Films; Xanadu Records, US-amerikanisches Plattenlabel (ab 1975) Xanadu (Band), deutsche Schlagerformation (1989–1992)
Der Begriff ist zum Synonym für Größe und Opulenz geworden, aber die Geschichte dahinter ist komplex und wird oft missverstanden. In diesem Artikel werden wir den Ursprung und die Bedeutung von Xanadu, seine historischen und literarischen Darstellungen und seine anhaltende Wirkung in der Populärkultur untersuchen.
- Emalia
Xanadu, auch bekannt als Zanadu oder Shengdu, ist ein mythischer Ort, der in einem tatsächlichen Gebiet der Inneren Mongolei verwurzelt ist. Xanadu wurde als der legendäre Ort bekannt, der in Samuel Taylor Coleridges Gedicht als der Ort erwähnt wird, an dem Kublai Khan eine riesige Kuppel baute, um jeder seiner Fantasien zu frönen. Der Ort ...
Bedeutung von Xanadu: Xanadu; Die mongolische Stadt, die von Kublai Khan im 1620 gegründet wurde, wurde in englischer Form als Shang-tu bekannt. Die Bedeutung "Traumort der Pracht und des Luxus" stammt aus Coleridges Gedicht (1816).
- The Summer Capital
- Layout & Buildings
- A Host to Important Events
- Described by Marco Polo
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Legacy
In the 13th century, the Mongol Empire ruled most of Asia and their capital was moved from Karakorum (Qaraqorum) in Mongolia to Xanadu in northeast China in 1263. Kublai Khan's first name for the new capital was Kaiping, but he then renamed it Xanadu/Shangdu, meaning 'Upper Capital' in 1273 when the capital was moved again, this time to Daidu (aka ...
The khan himself shunned his nomadic roots and, unlike his grandfather, the Mongol Empire's founder Genghis Khan (r. 1206-1227), he decided he had had enough of living in yurt tents and instead had a fine palace built. The city, designed by Kublai's Chinese advisor Liu Bingzhong (1216-1274), was also given earth circuit walls and towers, creating t...
The city frequently hosted great feasts and hunting parties but was an important host in other areas, too. In 1260 it had hosted a meeting of the Mongol tribal chiefs, akurultai, to officially proclaim Kublai the Great Khan or 'universal ruler' of the Mongol Empire. In 1275 the Great Khan called another kurultai at Xanadu, this time to decide how t...
The Venetian explorer Marco Polo (1254-1324) travelled across Asia and served at Kublai Khan's court between c. 1275 and 1292. On his return to Europe, Marco wrote of his experiences in his book The Travels of Marco Polo or Travels (Description of the World), first circulated c. 1298. In Book 1, chapter 57 of this extraordinary work, Marco describe...
Perhaps the most famous work today of the English poet and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge is the Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) but another of his critically acclaimed poems isKubla Khan (written in 1797, published in 1816), in which he, too, describes Xanadu (although not from any personal experience). The poem is the origin of that now m...
Today the site of Xanadu is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, and there are ruins and remains of the foundations of palaces, temples, walls, tombs, a canal, and waterways. Xanadu, though, really exists with far greater clarity in the imagination than it does in the reality of ruins. Both Polo and Coleridge's works contributed immeasurably ...
- Mark Cartwright
Definition. Xanadu (aka Shangdu, Shang-tu, and Kaiping) located in Inner Mongolia, northern China, was first the capital (1263-73) and then the summer capital (1274-1364) of the Mongol Empire. It came to prominence during the reign of Kublai Khan (r. 1260-1294) and was famous for its palaces, gardens and waterways. More about: Xanadu. Timeline.
noun [ S or U ] uk / ˈzæn.ə.duː / us / ˈzæn.ə.duː /. a very impressive and beautiful place, or a place that is perfect: The publishing mogul hosted lavish fetes at his own Xanadu, a vast estate. Oxford was my Xanadu, my vision of literary delight.
