Tongliang

Tong·liang
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proper noun

A district of Chongqing, China.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A district of Chongqing, China.

    On April 1, 2008, the Tongliang county water authority in Chongqing, southwest China, approved Zhu Jiaping’s application for water usage.

    2012, Jigang Zhou, Peng Guangcan, Ceng Zhen, “China's Water Crisis May Be Helped by Trading Water Rights”, in Noah Berlatsky, editor, Water, Greenhaven Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 81
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    In the course of criticizing revisionism and rectifying the style of work, the CCP committee of (Tungpo) commune, Tungliang County, has used various methods to conduct socialist education for the cadres and commune members, in order to enhance their awareness of the line struggle and help them spontaneously criticize capitalist tendencies and unswervingly take the socialist road.

    [1973 August 29 [1973 August 27], “Socialist Education Unfolds in Szechwan Commune”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 168, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengtu Szechwan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Southwest Region, page E 1

    Because the hamlet was the home of one of the few priests in eastern Sichuan, Catholics from as far away as Chongqing and the neighboring districts of Yongchuan, Tongliang, He Zhou, and Fu Zhou came to the hamlet seeking Gu to receive sacraments and to participate in worship.[...]The Ma family had migrated to nearby Baxian, the Qius to Fu Zhou, and the Songs to Tongliang.

    1996, Robert E. Entenmann, “Catholics and Society in Eighteenth-Century Sichuan”, in Daniel H. Bays, editor, Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 13, 21

    In 2020, Liu and his partner began painting walls free of charge and full of love and passion. Their first works were painted on the walls of an ancient town in Tongliang District of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. In about three months, they finished seven mural paintings.

    2022 April 8, “Muralists decorate countryside with creativity, passion”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2022

Origin

  1. Mandarin銅梁 /铜梁
  2. EnglishTongliang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 銅梁 /铜梁 (Tóngliáng).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 銅梁 /铜梁
  • 銅梁 /铜梁district
Chinese Mandarin 銅梁 /铜梁
  • 銅梁 /铜梁 (Tóngliáng)district
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