Meanings
- A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.
When this poem was written, Mao Zedong stayed in Yuanjiagou of the Qingjian County, Shaanxi Province, planning to lead the Red Army in making an eastern journey to the Anti-Japanese War front at Hebei Province.
1993, Gu Zhengkun (辜正坤), transl., Poems of Mao Zedong, Beijing: Peking University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1031 more example
Each time that General Liu Chih-tan arrived in a place, he always opened out his maps and studied them carefully. Then he would look for villagers to talk to, asking them about this and about that. In 1934, he led a part of the Northern Shensi Red Army, stationing them at Hua-an Monastery in Ch'ing-chien County. The chief of the food ministry in Ch’ing-chien County also lived in the village.
[1971, Charles Price Ridley, Paul H. B. Godwin, Dennis J. Doolin, The Making of a Model Citizen in Communist China, Stanford, Cali.: Hoover Institution Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 351
Origin
- Mandarin清澗 /清涧
- EnglishQingjian
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清澗 /清涧.
More words from Mandarin
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Chinese Cantonese 清澗 /清涧
- 清澗 /清涧county
Chinese Mandarin 清澗 /清涧
- 清澗 /清涧county
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