Linying

English

Alternative forms

• Lin-ying (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 臨潁 / 临颍.

Proper noun

Linying

1. A county of Luohe, Henan, China.
   • [1977 October 17 [1977 October 16], “People's Daily Lauds Cadre for Working with Peasants”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 200, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: National Affairs, page E 14:

     The PEOPLE'S DAILY today gives front-page prominence to a news report on a county leading cadre exemplary in working with the peasants in collective productive labour. Tiao Wen, first secretary of the party committee of Linying County, Honan Province, took part in physical labour in local communes for 260 days in two years. Joining the commune members in moving stone for farmland improvement projects, he trekked a total of 4,000 kilometres in the mountains.
     It has become a regular system for cadres at various levels in Linying County to take part in collective physical labour.]

   • 2017 February 8, “Girl rescued after eight hours stuck in well”, in Sky News‎^[1], archived from the original on 08 February 2017‎^[2]:

     The child plummeted halfway down the 20-metre water well while flying a kite on farmland in Linying County.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 臨潁 / 临颍 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Linying”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1747, column 3

Anagrams

• inlying, lying-in