Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Luoning.
The Yao Mountain is sixty li north of the modern Lo-ning hsien 洛寧縣, Honan.
1984, Hsüan-chih Yang, “Western Suburbs”, in Yi-t'ung Wang, transl., A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Lo-yang, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1822 more examples
The most recently recognized, and perhaps the earliest phase of the Yang-shao culture in the Chung-yüan region, is a complex of artifacts first known from the Li-chia-ts'un site of Hsi-hsiang in Shensi, on the southern side of the Tsinling Mountains on the upper Hanshui River, and since identified in a series of sites north of Tsin-ling in the Weishui Valley even the Huangho Valley in Honan, including the lower strata at Pei-shou-ling in Pao-chi and Yüan-chün-miao in Hua Hsien, and the sites at Lao-kuan-t'ai in Hua Hsien and on the banks of River Lo near Lo-ning, western Honan.
1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 111He also spent time lecturing in neighbouring counties, such as the free school in Lo-ning 洛寧, Honan, later known as the Lo-hsi shu-yüan 洛西書院 or ' Academy West of the [River] Lo.'
1980, Papers on Far Eastern History, numbers 21-24, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 22
Origin
- Mandarin洛寧 /洛宁
- EnglishLo-ning
From Mandarin 洛寧 /洛宁 (Luòníng), Wade–Giles romanization: Lo⁴-ning².
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