Meanings
- datedDated form of Shaoxing.
On our way back we explored the city of Shaohing, in which, as in Venice, the streets are canals, and boats the common vehicles.
1897, W. A. P. Martin, A Cycle of Cathay: Or, China, South and North, Fleming H. Revell Company, →OCLC, page 1132 more examples
Farming is everywhere the chief industry of the people, but besides the silk spinning and weaving, the paper fan, mat, and hat manufacture, and the curing of fish, already mentioned, wine is made of a fermented liquor derived from rice at Shaohing and is celebrated all over China, hams are cured in the Kinhwa prefecture, and wood carving and inlaid furniture are manufactured at Ningpo.
1910, The Provinces of China, Together with a History of the First Year of H.I.M. Hsuan Tung, and an Account of the Government of China, Shanghai: "The National Review" Office, page 132Cotton is a summer crop of increasing importance, especially in Kiangsu north of the Yangtze, and near Shaohing in Chekiang, the annual yield being estimated at 500,000 and 100,000 bales of 500 lb. each, respectively.
1934, George Babock Cressey, “The Yangtze Plain”, in China's Geographic Foundations: A Survey of the Land and Its People, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., →OCLC, →OL, page 298
Origin
- Mandarin紹興 /绍兴
- EnglishShaohing
Borrowed from Mandarin 紹興 /绍兴 (Shàoxīng).
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