Meanings
Long County1
- A county of Baoji, Shaanxi, China.
“Long” is an ancient name for the area around what is now Long County in Shaanxi Province. The land south of Long is the Sichuan Basin.
1997, Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Early Daoist Scriptures, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3464 more examples
Lungchou had its district government at the present-day Lung-hsien in Shensi Province. The Lungchou barrier here indicated must be somewhere north of Ch’ing-shui in the present Kansu Province.
[1956, Tieh-tseng Li, “Notes”, in The Historical Status of Tibet, New York: King's Crown Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 225The work methods followed by the party committee of the Kukuan Commune of Lung County, Shensi Province and the party committee of Pokang District of Tsungyang County, Anhwei Province, as reported in our paper today, are worthy of being promoted.
[1978 January 30 [1977 December 22], “Fully Bring Into Play the Role of This New Political Force”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 414, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Peking KUANG-MING JIH-PAO p 2, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Political and Sociological, page 2Each animal is cast with a hollow, open body that fits over the yoke of a cart (cat. nos. 31, 3c, 37), as do similarly designed animal figures excavated from a Qin tomb at Bianjiazhuang, Long county, southwestern Shaanxi Province.
2002, Emma C. Bunker, Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes: The Eugene V. Thaw and Other Notable New York Collections, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 24The shift of Ze from Long County down to central Baoji in the south presents an example of a polity's relocation from the periphery to the center of this frontier.
2021, Yan Sun, Many Worlds Under One Heaven: Material Culture, Identity, and Power in the Northern Frontiers of the Western Zhou, 1045–771 BCE, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=orpFEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT172Synonyms: Lung Hsien
Long County2
- One of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Ludowici.
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA county of Baoji, Shaanxi, China.
Origin
Long County · proper noun
Partial calque of Mandarin 隴縣 /陇县 (Lǒng Xiàn).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 隴縣 /陇县
- 隴縣 /陇县 (Lǒng Xiàn)county
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