Mienchih

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 澠池 / 渑池 (Miǎnchí), Wade–Giles romanization: Mien³-chʻih².

Proper noun

Mienchih

Alternative form of Mianchi
- 1959 February 10, An Chih-ming, “Finds at the Sanmen Gorge”, in Peking Review, volume II, number 6, →OCLC, page 21, column 3:
  The many new discoveries and definite stratigraphic evidence of the Sanmen Gorge sites clarify the basic characteristics of these two cultures and dispel the confusion caused by J. G. Andersson of Sweden who, in excavating the Neolithic site at the we of Yangshao, Mienchih County, Honan Province (some 50 kilometres to the east of Gorge), indiscriminately assigned relics of the Yangshao and Lungshan cultures and East Chou periods which he found there to the Yangshao culture.
- 1973 June, Hsia Nai, “600,000 Years of Labor and Struggle — Exhibition of Archaeological Finds in New China”, in China Reconstructs‎^[1], volume XXII, number 6, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21, column 1:
  Because this painted pottery culture was first discovered at Yangshao village in Mienchih county, Honan province, it is called Yangshao culture.
- 1977 January 24 [1977 January 22], “Loyang Prefecture, Honan, Asseses Tachai Work Teams”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 15, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengchow Honan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page H 3:
  Recently the Loyang Prefectural CCP Committee held a summing-up and assessment meeting in Mienchih County for the prefectural organs' work teams on learning from Tachai, in order to implement the spirit of the Second National Conference on Learning From Tachai in Agriculture and to expose and criticize the "gang of four."
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Mienchih.