Yanshuei

English

Yanshuei District Office, Tainan City

Alternative forms

• Yen-shui, Yenshui (Wade–Giles)
• Yanshui (Hanyu Pinyin)

Etymology

From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鹽水 (Yánshuěi).

Pronunciation

• enPR: yěnʹshwāʹ

Proper noun

Yanshuei

1. A district of Tainan, Taiwan.
   • 2006, Taiwan Yearbook‎^[4], Government Information Office, →OCLC, page 314:

     In Yanshuei Township 鹽水鎮, Tainan County, for example, huge numbers of beehive rockets are set off in gratitude to the 3rd century general Guandi 關帝 whose spirit is believed to have protected local people from a[...]

   • 2009, Taiwan Business Topics‎^[5], volume 39, American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 65:

     In some smaller towns in Taiwan, the Lantern Festival has taken uniquely local forms, including the gentle floating sky lanterns of Pingsin, Taipei County, and the high-intensity beehive rocket displays at Yanshuei in Tainan County.

   • 2010, Lesley Reader, Lucy Ridout, First-Time Asia (Rough Guides)‎^[6], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 321:

     January/February Lantern Festival. Nationwide celebration marking the end of the Chinese New Year festivities that varies from area to area but reliably includes fireworks, paper lanterns, lion and dragon dances. It is especially picturesque in Pingsi, where paper lanterns are launched into the sky and in Yanshuei near Chiayi where huge fireworks the size of trucks are part of the fun.

   • 2016, “FESTIVALS YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS!”, in Travel Weekly‎^[7]:

     The Yanshuei Beehive Fireworks Festival in the south of Taiwan is the third largest folk celebration in the world. A parade of palanquins circling the city, setting off thousands of rockets that create a deafening bee-like buzzing sound. This ‘baptism of fireworks’ is supposed to ward off troubles and bring good fortune for the year.

   • 2019 November 24, George Liao, “Street exhibition lights up old Yanshuei in S. Taiwan”, in Taiwan News‎^[8], archived from the original on 29 January 2021, Travel & Cuisine‎^[9]:

     Taiwan’s southwestern city of Tainan has decorated six old streets and alleys in the historic town of Yanshuei with works of art lit at night, to extend the brand benefit of the annual Yuejin Lantern Festival, according to a CNA report on Sunday (Nov. 24).

   • 2022 January 21, Steven Crook, “Highways & Byways: Charming antiquity: Tainan’s Yanshuei District”, in Taipei Times‎^[10], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 January 2022, Features, page 13‎^[11]:

     Like Taiwan’s other old settlements, Yanshuei used to be a walled town. The defensive barrier is long gone, but there’s a reminder of the gates through which humans, horses and bullock carts entered and left in the form of street names.

   • 2023 January 19, Tim Wu, “The Lunar New Year Attractions to See at Once, Lantern Festivals and Markets in Taiwan”, in National Immigration Agency‎^[12], archived from the original on 2023-05-28‎^[13]:

     The Yanshuei District, Tainan, is once more in the public limelight because to tales and fantasies about the moon. The post-epidemic period is illuminated by sound and light art.

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

Translations

district in south Taiwan

• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 鹽水 / 盐水 (zh-min-nan) (Kiâm-chúi)

  Mandarin: 鹽水 / 盐水 (zh) (Yánshuǐ)

Further reading

• Yanshuei, Yanshui, Yenshui at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

Anagrams

• siheyuan