Meanings
Lufeng1
alternative Lukfung · alternative Lu-feng
- A county-level city of Shanwei, Guangdong, China.
Other speakers included (Chen Chun-keng), leaders of the Haifeng and Lufeng county CCP committees and representatives of the old revolutionary bases.
1978 November 24 [1978 November 23], “Kwangtung Holds Rally to Mark Anniversary of Soviet Regime”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 227, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Canton Kwangtung Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page H 23 more examples
In Lu-feng county in Kuangtung, for example, the P’eng clan is called "P’eng Pan Hsien" (P’engs of half a county) because the clan numbers some 200,000 among the county's population of 400,000.
[1972, David C.E. Liao, “A Peculiar People”, in The Unresponsive: Resistant or Neglected?: The Homogeneous Unit Principle Illustrated by the Hakka Chinese in Taiwan, William Carey Library, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 94P’eng P’ai was able to return to Hai-feng county on the heels of the Eastern Expedition at the end of February 1925 and to revive his shattered movement there. Membership grew rapidly to a reported 70,000, with 12,000 in neighbouring Lu-feng county, but Ch’en Chiung-ming’s troops recovered these counties in the summer and again the movement was driven underground.
[1983, C. Martin Wilbur, “The Nationalist Revolution: from Canton to Nanking, 1923–28”, in John K. Fairbank, editor, The Cambridge History of China, volume 12, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 543–544It was the third day of tensions in Lufeng. Hundreds of villagers attacked government buildings, according to a statement by the municipal government of Shanwei region, which includes Lufeng.
2011 September 23, James Pomfret, Sisi Tang, Chris Buckley, Sabrina Mao, Sui-Lee Wee, “Hundreds protest in south China over land grab”, in Brian Rhoads, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 11 May 2022, World News
Lufeng2
alternative Lu-feng
- A county-level city of Chuxiong, Yunnan, China, formerly a county.
Hsinhua said that the almost complete lower jawbone, two other fossilized jawbones and more than 40 fossilized teeth from ancient apes were found in coal seams in Lufeng county in the southwest province of Yunnan.
1977 April 18, “China Says Bone Find Is New Link to Man”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2024, page 181 more example
The Chuhsiung Autonomous Prefecture of Yi nationality [I-tsu] in Yunnan Province has made steady progress in developing industry since it was set up in 1958.[…]A farm tool workshop in Lufeng county is now able to turn out five-ton carts, cranes, sand sifters, water pipes, cement mixers and tractor parts. At the start it could only produce spades and sickles.
1978 June 23 [1978 May 13], “Yunnan Prefecture's, Industry”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 435, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →OCLC, pages 67–68
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Lufeng · proper noun
- Mandarin祿豐 /禄丰
- EnglishLufeng
From Mandarin 祿豐 /禄丰 (Lùfēng).
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Chinese Cantonese 陸豐 /陆丰, 祿豐 /禄丰
- 陸豐 /陆丰 (luk⁶ fung¹)county-level city in Guangdong
- 祿豐 /禄丰 (luk⁶ fung¹)county-level city in Yunnan
Chinese Mandarin 陸豐 /陆丰, 祿豐 /禄丰
- 陸豐 /陆丰 (Lùfēng)county-level city in Guangdong
- 祿豐 /禄丰 (Lùfēng)county-level city in Yunnan
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