Huangling

Huang·ling
H4U1A1N1G2L1I1N1G2

proper noun

A county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Huang-ling

  1. A county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.

    The Cave Temple of a Thousand Buddhas (Tang) is halfway up Ziwu Hill in the western part of Huangling county.

    1982, Ruth Lor Malloy, The Morrow Travel Guide to the People's Republic of China, 2nd Revised edition, Quill, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 243
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    HUANG DI, the legendary Yellow Emperor to whom is attributed the founding of the Chinese nation about 2000 B.C., is said to have been buried on the loess plateau. There is a tomb in Shaanxi province’s Huangling county which has long been honored as his.

    1979 August, Lan Cao, “Tomb of the Yellow Emperor”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXVIII, number 8, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 64, column 1

    On April 4, 1938, Chang Kuo-tao, another leader of the Chinese Communists, went from Yenan, Shensi, to Chungpu (renamed Huangling, 1944) in his capacity of acting chairman of the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Government to attend the sacrificial services to the tomb of the Yellow Emperor.

    1981, A Pictorial History of the Republic of China: Its Founding and Development, volume II, Modern China Press, →OCLC, page 72

    In nine school children (6—10 years) from Huang-Ling county, a selenium-deficient area 200 km north of Xi’an, 5 ml of EDTA blood were taken in the fasting state.

    [1987, M.D. Laryea, Y.F. Jiang, G.L. Xu, D. Frosch, I. Lombeck, “Low Selenium State and Increased Erucic Acid in Children from Keshan Endemic Areas – A Pilot Study”, in Albrecht Wendel, editor, Selenium in Biology and Medicine: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Selenium in Biology and Medicine, held July 18-21, 1988, Tübingen, FRG, Van Nostrand Reinhold, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 277

    The mausoleum, located in Huangling County, Shaanxi Province, is the location of the tomb of the Yellow Emperor, the common ancestor of the Chinese nation.

    2022 April 6, Shaanxi Provincial People’s Government, “Renyin (2022) Qingming Festival Memorial Ceremony for the Yellow Emperor was held in Shaanxi”, in AP News, PR Newswire, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023

Origin

  1. Mandarin黃陵 /黄陵
  2. EnglishHuangling

From Mandarin 黃陵 /黄陵.

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 黃陵 /黄陵
  • 黃陵 /黄陵county
Chinese Mandarin 黃陵 /黄陵
  • 黃陵 /黄陵county
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