Qingyuan

See also: qíngyuàn, qǐngyuàn, and Qīngyuǎn

English

Alternative forms

• Ch'ing-yüan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清苑 (Qīngyuàn).

Proper noun

Qingyuan

1. A district of Baoding, Hebei, China.
   • [1967, Howard S. Levy, “Introductory Remarks”, in Chinese Footbinding: The History of a Curious Erotic Custom‎^[1], New York: Bell Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 30, 301:

     The same point of view was expounded in a folk ditty of Hopei Province: "Bound feet, bound feet, past the gate can't retreat."⁶

     6. Chia Shen 賈伸 states that this ditty originated in Ch’ing-yüan County 清苑 and cites it as evidence that footbinding was a restrictive device.]

   • 2019 December 9, Zhuang Pinghui, “Communist Party to reopen death in custody case after police officer claims he was scapegoat”, in South China Morning Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 December 2019, China society‎^[3]:

     The political and legal affairs committee of Qingyuan district in Baoding, Hebei province, announced on Friday that it would look into the allegation after a report by The Beijing News that day.
     According to the report, the police officer, identified only by his family name Yang, was being tried for dereliction of duty in Qingyuan District People’s Court last month when he submitted a recording of a conversation in which the boss allegedly tells Yang and an auxiliary officer to take full responsibility for the death of a suspected criminal.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 清苑 (zh) (Qīngyuàn)

Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清遠 / 清远 (Qīngyuǎn).

Proper noun

Qingyuan

1. A prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China.
   • [1960, Kung-chuan Hsiao, Rural China: Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century‎^[4], University of Washington Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 655:

     Lt. Col. G. B. Fisher, Three Years' Service in China (1863), p. 57, gives the following conversation between the emperor and the provincial judge of Kwangtung, referring to the campaign against rebels in Ch’ing-yüan Hsien (Kwangtung): "Question. Which are foremost in action, the regulars or the braves ? Answer. The braves, in general. . . .]

   • [2004, “Chronicle September 1939–August 1945”, in World War II: Day by Day‎^[5], DK, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 599, column 1:

     1945
     January […]
     19. China: Japanese troops take Chingyuan, on the Canton to Hankow railway.]

   • 2020 March 24, Brenda Goh, Ryan Woo, Se Young Lee, Stella Qiu, Yawen Chen, Samuel Shen Liangping Gao, Roxanne Liu, Huizhong Wu, Min Zhang, Shivani Singh, “Locked-down no longer, China's Hubei begins return to normal”, in Michael Perry, Christian Schmollinger, Giles Elgood, editors, Reuters‎^[6], archived from the original on 28 April 2022, World News‎^[7]:

     “I booked my ticket this morning after hearing the news,” said Chen Ting, who was accompanied by her three-year-old son among about 40 people getting off a train in Hubei’s Xianning city.
     The 28-year-old had travelled from Qingyuan city in the southern province of Guangdong, where she runs a wholesale business.

Translations

prefecture-level city in Guangdong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 清遠 / 清远 (cing¹ jyun⁵)

  Mandarin: 清遠 / 清远 (zh) (Qīngyuǎn)

Further reading

• Qingyuan, Ch'ing-yuan, Ching-yuan, Ch'ingyuan, Chingyuan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qingyuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2547, column 2