Qianyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 千陽／千阳／汧陽／汧阳.

Qianyang

1. A county of Baoji, Shaanxi, China.
   • [1972, Chao Feng-nien, “Learning from Tachai Brings Big Changes”, in Tachai: Standard Bearer in China's Agriculture [大寨——中国农业战綫上的一面紅旗]‎, 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 28:

     Chienyang County in Shensi Province on the loess highland has fairly rich water resources, but there was little irrigated land — averaging 0.4 mu per person — before the Cultural Revolution owing to interference and sabotage by Liu Shao-chi’s counter-revolutionary revisionist line.]

   • 1983, Rongzhao Mei, “The Decimal Place-Value Numeration and the Rod and Bead Arithmetics”, in 中国古代科技成就 [Ancient China's Technology and Science] (China Knowledge Series)‎, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 58–59:

     In recent archaeological excavations a number of ancient counting-rods have been unearthed. More than 30 rods were found in August 1971 in Qianyang County of Shaanxi Province.

• Qianyang, Ch'ien-yang, Chien-yang, Chienyang at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qianyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2546, column 1