Wuyuan

See also: Wùyuán, wūyuàn, and wúyuán

English

Alternative forms

• Wu-yüan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 婺源 (Wùyuán).

Proper noun

Wuyuan

1. A county of Shangrao, Jiangxi, China.
   • 1937, W. L. Bales, Tso Tsungt'ang‎^[1], Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, →OCLC, page 123:

     Tso left 1,000 men to garrison Kingtechen and on July 9th, 1861, established himself with the rest of his army in Wuyuan, a town covering an important approach to Kiangsi. He stayed in Wuyuan until November.

   • 1958 [1958 July 15], Survey of China Mainland Press‎^[2], numbers 1803-1823, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44:

     A bumper tea harvest has been gathered in Wuyuan County, Kiangsi Province, a famous green tea producing center, this year.

   • [1991, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, “Chu Hsi's Authorship”, in Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China: A Social History of Writing about Rites‎^[3], Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 112:

     Since the end of the T’ang dynasty, Chu Hsi’s ancestors had been settled in Kuan village of Wu-yüan county, then the southernmost county in She prefecture, Chiang-nan East circuit (currently the northeast corner of Kiangsi province).]

   • [1999, Linda A. Walton, Academies and Society in Southern Sung China‎^[4], Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 37:

     While Chu Hsi’s fame in the Southern Sung academy movement rests on his revival of White Deer Grotto in Chiang-hsi, he was most active in founding academies in his adoptive home, Fu-chien. His ancestral home was Wu-yuan County (Hui, Chiang-tung), but he was born, educated, and spent much of his career both in and out of office in Fu-chien.]

   • 2015 February 13, Engen Tham, Pete Sweeney, Dominique Patton, “China's lending push bypasses cash-starved farm sector”, in Will Waterman, editor, Reuters‎^[5], archived from the original on 05 August 2022, Economic News:

     Farmers form a Chinese national flag with red peppers, unhusked rice and kidney beans in Wuyuan county, Jiangxi province September 27, 2014.

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

Translations

county in eastern China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 婺源 (zh) (Wùyuán)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wuyuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3496, column 2
• Wuyuan, Wu-yuan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.