Huang-mei

See also: Huangmei

English

Map including 黃梅 HUANG-MEI (HWANG-MEI) (walled) (AMS, 1954)

Etymology

From Mandarin 黃梅／黄梅 (Huángméi), Wade–Giles romanization: Huang²-mei².

Proper noun

Huang-mei

1. Alternative form of Huangmei
   • 1965, Efrem Trettel, Rivers-Rice Fields-Souls‎^[1], Franciscan Herald Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 173:

     I arrived in the city of Huang-mei around eight or nine and crossed the obscure and silent city guided by large stones on the main street. Here and there I could see a light in the dark homes and on occasion a passerby broke the spell of darkness with the arabesques of his lighted and circling sticks.

   • 1990, A. F. Price, Wong Mou-lam, transl., The Diamond Sūtra and the Sūtra of Hui-neng‎^[2], Boston: Shambhala Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 68:

     It must be due to my good karma in past lives that I heard about this, and that I was given ten taels for the maintenance of my mother by a man who advised me to go to Huang-mei to interview the fifth patriarch. After arrangements had been made for her, I left for Huang-mei.

   • 1992, Cheng Chien Bhikshu, Sun-Face Buddha: The Teachings of Ma-tsu and the Hung-chou School of Ch'an‎^[3], Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 8:

     At the age of forty Tao-hsin moved to Shuang-feng Mountain in the district of Huang-mei, present-day Hupeh province. There he attracted a large following; it is said that he had five hundred students studying under him.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Huang-mei.

Translations

Huangmei — see Huangmei

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Hwangmei or Huang-mei”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 819, column 2