Fengchieh

See also: Feng-chieh

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 奉節／奉节 (Fèngjié), Wade–Giles romanization: Fêng⁴-chieh².

Proper noun

Fengchieh

1. Alternative form of Fengjie
   • 1960, Kuo-chun Chao, “Current Agrarian Policy, 1953-59”, in Agrarian Policy of the Chinese Communist Party, 1921-1959‎^[1], New Delhi: Asia Publishing House, →OCLC, pages 228–229:

     One of the reasons for the decline of the peasants’ income from subsidiary occupations in 1955 was the low purchasing prices offered by the state for many agricultural side-products. For example, the price set for dried sunflower in Fengchieh county, Szechuan province (in 1955) was 5 yuan per 110 lbs., which was only one-third the pre-war price. As a result there was a decline of 60 per cent in the total value of sunflowers sold by the peasants in 1955 as against 1954.¹⁵⁵

     ¹⁵⁵ Party Secretariat, Fengchieh county, Szechuan, “Problems in the Production of Special Native Products,” HPYK, No. 19, October 6, 1956, p. 65.

   • 1962, Tu Fu, “MOVING HOUSE TO KWEICHOW¹”, in Rewi Alley, transl., edited by Feng Chih, Tu Fu Selected Poems‎^[2], 3rd edition (Poetry), Peking: Foreign Languages Press, translation of original in Chinese, published 1990, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 136:

     FROM my sick-bed in Yun-an² / I now move to Kweichow;

     ¹ Present-day Fengchieh on the northern bank of the Yangtze in Szechuan.
     ² Modern Yunyang near Fengchieh.

   • 1977 September, “The Three Gorges”, in China Pictorial‎^[3], Peking: China Pictorial, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages [4], column 1:

     IN Fengchieh County, Szechuan, the Yangtze cuts through the Wushan Mountains bordering Szechuan and Hupeh, then flows east.