Mianchi

alternative Mien-ch'ih · alternative Mienchih

1. A county of Sanmenxia, Henan, China.

   Both these sites are also identified as belonging to the Yangshao culture, similar remains having first been discovered at Yangshao Village in Mianchi County, Henan Province.

   1991 [1987], Zongxu Zou, translated by Susan Whitfield, The Land Within the Passes: A History of Xian, Viking, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 41

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   But in 1920 Andersson discovered in Mien-ch’ih Hsien, western Honan, in the heart of Chinese civilization, a Stone Age site near Yang-shao-ts’un, which was to be followed by his discovery of another Painted Pottery site at the cave of Sha-kuo-t’un in Liaoning in 1922 and many other Painted Pottery Culture sites in Kansu in 1923-24.

   [1968, Kwang-chih Chang, “Introduction”, in The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 5

   A truck stops near a section of a partially collapsed expressway bridge on the Lianhuo highway in Mianchi county, Henan province, China, February 1, 2013. According to Xinhua News Agency, five people died and eight others were injured after an expressway bridge partially collapsed due to a truck explosion.

   2013 February 1, “China bridge collapse”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 08 May 2022