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.]

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^[2], 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^[3], 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^[4], archived from the original on 28 April 2022, World News‎^[5]:

     “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^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2547, column 2