Feng-chieh

A form of Fengjie — A county of Chongqing, China.

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Fengjie.

    Li Po is also the author of this poem. Pai-ti is on a mountain in eastern Feng-chieh county in Szechuan Province.

    1967, Dennis J. Doolin, Charles P. Ridley, THE GENESIS OF A MODEL CITIZEN IN COMMUNIST CHINA: TRANSLATION AND ANALYSIS OF SELECTED CHINESE COMMUNIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL READERS, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, →OCLC, page 476
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    The crops in the Fêng-chieh and Wushan Dirtricts^([sic – meaning Districts]) also suffered greatly from wind and hail combined.

    [1882 November 29, “Abstract of Peking Gazettes.”, in North-China Herald, volume XXIX, number 805, →OCLC, page 590

    "The cord-marked li tripods extended westward no further than Wan Hsien, and the gray li tripods did not even reach Feng-chieh."

    1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 413

    For Yen Hsüeh-mei was to take a steamboat downstream to Feng-chieh, where Tseng Shao-hua would meet her and escort her overland to Lao-ho-k'ou.

    1974, Timothy A. Ross, Chiang Kuei, New York: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59

    When we arrived in Wu-shan, we happened upon an old wooden boat which carried cotton to Feng-chieh, so we took that.

    1988 [1981], Hualing Nieh Engle, translated by Jane Parish Yang and Linda Lappin, Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China, Boston: Beacon Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17

Origin

  1. Mandarin奉節 /奉节
  2. EnglishFeng-chieh

From Mandarin 奉節 /奉节 (Fèngjié), Wade–Giles romanization: Fêng⁴-chieh².

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