Yuan'an
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 遠安 / 远安 (Yuǎn'ān).
Proper noun
[edit]Yuan'an
- A county of Yichang, Hubei, China.
- [1967, J. D. Frodsham, “Notes to the Poems”, in The Murmuring Stream: The Life and Works of the Chinese Nature Poet Hsieh Ling-yün (385-433), Duke of K’ang-Lo[1], volume 2, Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, →OCLC, page 192:
- 7. The river Chü 沮 rises in Pao-k’ang 保康 county, Hupei, and runs through Yüan-an 遠安 county where it is joined by the Chang 漳.]
- 2005, Lihui Yang, Deming An, Jessica Anderson Turner, “LEIZU”, in Handbook of Chinese Mythology (Handbooks of World Mythology)[2], ABC-Clio, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 167:
- In Yuan'an County, Hubei Province, there is a Leizu temple (also named the Temple of the Sericulture Goddess). Since Leizu is said to have been born on March 15 in this county, a temple fair is held on every lunar March 15.
- [2015 July 13, “Ancient temple site discovered in Yuanan County, Hubei”, in General Office of Hubei Provincial People's Government[4], archived from the original on 06 July 2022:
- An ancient temple site which dated back to Ming Dynasty was discovered in Yuanan County of central China’s Hubei Province on July 10, 2015.]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yuan'an.
Translations
[edit]a county in central China
Further reading
[edit]- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yüanan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[6], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2128, column 1
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yuan'an”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3536, column 2