Yunmeng

alternative Yün-meng · alternative Yun-meng

1. A county of Xiaogan, Hubei, China.

   On the opposite bank of the river other Chinese units attacked Taoshih and Yunmeng north-west of Hankow.

   1943 June 8, “Jap Remnants Suffer Heavy Casualties: Alerts In Chungking”, in The Bombay Chronicle, volume XXXI, number 134, page 1

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   Some 1,000 bamboo slips, most of them recording laws and documents dating back about 2,200 years, were found in one of the 12 tombs recently excavated in Yunmeng county, Hupeh province, in Central China. They date from the late years of the Warring States period (475 BC-221 BC) to the Chin dynasty (221 BC-207 BC).

   1976, “Oldest 'Law Book'”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XV, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 69

   Most important of these latter - though the millions of Chinese and foreign tourists who have gazed in awe at Qin Shihuang's terra cotta army buried near his tomb may find it hard to agree - are the legal and bureaucratic documents dating to around 217 B.C. unearthed by Chinese archeologists during 1975 at tomb number 11 in Yunmeng County of what is now Hubei Province.

   1987 October 4, Jonathan Spence, “Father of His Country”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2015, Section 7, page 1

   Doctors look at a lung CT image in a hospital in Yunmeng County, Xiaogan City, in China's central Hubei Province.

   2020 March 10, Nsikan Akpan, “These underlying conditions make coronavirus more severe, and they're surprisingly common”, in National Geographic, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2020