Xinzheng
See also: xīnzhēng
English
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新郑服务区
Xinzheng Service Area
Xinzheng Service Area
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新鄭/新郑 (Xīnzhèng).
Pronunciation
- enPR: shĭnʹjǔngʹ
Proper noun
Xinzheng
- A county-level city in Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
- [1972, Li-chuan Chang, Lin Yu-ching, “The Masses Support Archaeological Work”, in 中国新出土文物 [New Archaeological Finds in China: Discoveries During the Cultural Revolution], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 48:
- A commune member at Hsincheng County, Honan Province, presented two square bronze wine-vessels of 37 catties each, dated the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Periods (770-221 B.C.), which he came upon while irrigating the fields.]
- 1987, Jessica Rawson, “The Eastern Zhou Period”, in Chinese Bronzes: Art and Ritual, British Museum Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 47:
- Tight and dense motifs occur on bronzes excavated in 1923 from a tomb at Lijialou at Xinzheng Xian in southern Henan attributed to the small state of Zheng. [...]The special interest of the Xinzheng bronzes is their diversity.
- 2015 May 26, Sascha Matuszak, “Cradle of civilisation”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-09-27:
- Xinzheng City, outside Zhengzhou, has built the Xuanyuan Temple and a museum dedicated to the Yellow Emperor, in honour of the time he spent at Xuanyuan Hill, to which he lent one of his names.
Translations
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xinzheng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3504, column 3
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