Li-shui

See also: Lishui, Líshuǐ, and Lìshuǐ

English

Map including LI-SHUI (CHUCHOW) (AMS, 1961)

Etymology

From Mandarin 麗水 / 丽水 Wade–Giles romanization: Li²-shui³.

Proper noun

Li-shui

1. Alternative form of Lishui
   • 1970, Arthur Waley, “At Peking, 1736 to 1743”, in Yuan Mei: Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet‎^[1], Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 30:

     In 1743, at the early age of 27, he became Prefect of Li-shui, about 50 miles south-east of Nanking.

   • 1970, Wolfram Eberhard, Studies in Chinese Folklore and Related Essays‎^[2], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 22:

     In the fields near Li-shui there is an enormous camphor tree (illustration 1.) with a built-in niche containing incense cones and an earthenware dish for sacrifices. I also noticed a large number of prayer notes.

   • 2009, Terri Hardin, editor, Terrifying Tales: Stories of the Occult from Around the World‎^[3], Fall River Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 344:

     Skulls may haunt even without being so bitterly provoked. The country of Ch'u-cheu (in Chekiang province) is very mountainous. There, in the district of Li-shui, situated south of the peak of the Residence of the Immortal Genies, farmers plowing and sowing often break up waste ground, even as far as halfway up the mountains.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Li-shui.

Translations

Lishui — see Lishui