Wanluan

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 萬巒 / 万峦 (Wànluán).

Proper noun

Wanluan

1. A rural township in Pingtung County, Taiwan.
   • 1972, Burton Pasternak, “Kinship”, in Kinship & Community in Two Chinese Villages‎^[1], Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 75–76:

     About 140 years ago, for example, a certain Hsü Kuang-ming established an ancestral estate in Wanluan consisting of ten hectares. The trust was specifically set aside to provide for his own worship after death, and access to its profits was to be enjoyed only by his descendants.

   • 1973 March 25, “Zone plan will spur silk making”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly]‎^[2], volume XIV, number 11, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 5:

     They will be set up in Kungkuan and Tunglo in Miaoli County; Mingchien in Nantou County; Hsiaying, Shanshang and Hsinhua in Tainan County; Neipu, Kaoshu and Wanluan in Pingtung County; and Luyeh, Pinan, Taitung and Chihshang in Taitung County.

   • 2003, Donald S. Sutton, “Places: Nine Troupes in Their Local Settings”, in Steps of Perfection: Exorcistic Performers and Chinese Religion in Twentieth-Century Taiwan‎^[3], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 63:

     The village borders on the Hakka district of Wanluan on the southeastern outskirts of Chaozhou, and its temple is modest in size, with a front and rear chamber and two larger temporary extensions front and side. Yet its members (unaware of similarly named temples in Pingdong as well as Donggang) insist that it is the City God of the county of Pingdong.

   • 2020 January 10, Mark Caltonhill, “A Culinary Tour of Taiwan”, in Taiwan Business TOPICS‎^[4], archived from the original on 2020-09-30, Wine & Dine‎^[5]:

     Wanluan (萬巒), a predominantly Hakka village in Pingtung’s foothills, owes its reputation as the capital of pig trotters (豬腳) to a visit by President Chiang Ching-kuo on January 2, 1981. Having walked through the old-town market, he stopped at Haihong Restaurant (海鴻飯店). Word of mouth did the rest: culinary tourists flocked in, restaurants proliferated, and in 2004 the Pingtung County Government launched Wanluan Pig Trotter Street (萬巒豬腳街).

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Wanluan.

Translations

rural township

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 萬巒 / 万峦 (maan⁶ lyun⁴)

  Mandarin: 萬巒 / 万峦 (zh) (Wànluán)

Further reading

• Wanluan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.