Meanings
alternative Wu-yüan
- A county of Shangrao, Jiangxi, China.
A bumper tea harvest has been gathered in Wuyuan County, Kiangsi Province, a famous green tea producing center, this year.
1958 [1958 July 15], Survey of China Mainland Press, numbers 1803-1823, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 444 more examples
Tso left 1,000 men to garrison Kingtechen and on July 9th, 1861, established himself with the rest of his army in Wuyuan, a town covering an important approach to Kiangsi. He stayed in Wuyuan until November.
1937, W. L. Bales, Tso Tsungt'ang, Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, →OCLC, page 123Since the end of the T’ang dynasty, Chu Hsi’s ancestors had been settled in Kuan village of Wu-yüan county, then the southernmost county in She prefecture, Chiang-nan East circuit (currently the northeast corner of Kiangsi province).
[1991, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, “Chu Hsi's Authorship”, in Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China: A Social History of Writing about Rites, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 112While Chu Hsi’s fame in the Southern Sung academy movement rests on his revival of White Deer Grotto in Chiang-hsi, he was most active in founding academies in his adoptive home, Fu-chien. His ancestral home was Wu-yuan County (Hui, Chiang-tung), but he was born, educated, and spent much of his career both in and out of office in Fu-chien.
[1999, Linda A. Walton, Academies and Society in Southern Sung China, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 37Farmers form a Chinese national flag with red peppers, unhusked rice and kidney beans in Wuyuan county, Jiangxi province September 27, 2014.
2015 February 13, Engen Tham, Pete Sweeney, Dominique Patton, “China's lending push bypasses cash-starved farm sector”, in Will Waterman, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2022, Economic News
Origin
From Mandarin 婺源 (Wùyuán).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 婺源
- 婺源 (mou⁶ jyun⁴)county in eastern China
Chinese Mandarin 婺源
- 婺源 (Wùyuán)county in eastern China
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