Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Guangxi.
The hilly topography restricts the cultivated area mainly to the valleys of the Hsi River and of its tributaries in Kuang-hsi and Kuang-tung and the lowlands of T'ai-wan and Hai-nan.
1958, “China, Agriculture and Food Supply”, in C. K. Leung, Norton Ginsburg, editors, The Pattern of Asia, Edgewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., published 1961, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1772 more examples
Kuang-hsi Province offers limited areas of level land most of which is found in narrow valleys along the lower branches of the Yueh River system (of which the Hsi or West River is the chief).
1954, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China, Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 12It was in the ninth century that a systematic approach to feng shui was compiled by a scholar named Yang Yun-sung based on observable phenomenon such as the natural formations of land. Yang lived in the province of Kuang-hsi, in southwest China, one of the most spectacularly scenic regions in the world. Its fantastically shaped hills and meandering rivers have been celebrated by Chinese painters and poets for centuries.
1998, R. D. Chin, “The Ba-Gua”, in Feng shui Revealed, New York: Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 19
Origin
- Mandarin廣西
- EnglishKuang-hsi
From Mandarin 廣西 (Guǎngxī) Wade–Giles romanization: Kuang³-hsi¹.
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