yuanyang

plural yuanyangs

1. ChinacountableuncountableA pair of mandarin ducks, one male and one female, as a symbol of faithful union.

   Yuanyang, the Mandarin duck, mates for life, and is hence a symbol of conjugal felicity.

   2006, Pi-Ching Hsu, Beyond Eroticism: A Historian's Reading of Humor in Feng Menglong's Child's Folly

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   The yuanyang are the male and female respectively of Anas galericulata, commonly called by Europeans "Mandarin duck." These beautiful water-fowl manifest when mated a singular degree of attachment for each other, and they have hence been elevated into the emblems of connubial affection and fidelity.

   1889, Congressional Serial Set, page 460

   May the pair of yuanyang 鸳鸯 augur well for our proposed union with Dominant Duck," said Susie gaily.

   2016, Matt Huang, Grace Hsu, Young China Hand, →ISBN

2. countableuncountableSynonym of yuenyeung.

   Yuanyang is also a popular drink mixed with milk tea and coffee.

   2015, T Turner, Hong Kong 2016 - : Have an Adventure!

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   Yuanyang, sometimes also called Ying Yong, is a popular beverage in Hong Kong, made of a mixture of coffee and Hong-style milk tea.

   2012, Avani Burdett, Delicatessen Cookbook - Burdett's Delicatessen Recipes, →ISBN

   It is even enjoyed as a unique half tea, half coffee milky mix, yuanyang, a conjugal pairing as disparate as male and female Mandarin ducks (yes, it gets its name from the ducks).

   2013, Andrew Dalby, The Breakfast Book, →ISBN, page 92

   After just thirty minutes and very limited math skills, my research indicated there are far too many people buying Double-Espresso Macchiato Yuanyangs just prior to entering the expressway for the morning's "rush hour", if you know what I mean.

   2013, Matthew Gerwitz, Disposable Catheters and Other Musings, →ISBN, page 7

   It comes as no surprise that Hong Kongers have discovered the joys of combining tea and coffee to create yuanyang.

   2016, Michael Zee, SymmetryBreakfast, →ISBN, page 133

   Synonyms: yuenyeung

1. A county of Honghe, Yunnan, China.

   The same report also said that between six and seven thousand Moslems in Yuanyang County, Yunnan Province, staged an armed uprising last July.

   1975 December 28, “Calling for independence”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 51, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 3

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   Yuanyang terraced fields lie within the Yuanyang county of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, on the south part of Ailao Mountain, They are majestic and extend through the whole of Honghe, Yuanyang, Lüchun and Jinping counties on the south bank of the Honghe River. Only within Yuanyang county does it cover an area of about 17,000 mu (a Chinese unit, one mu equals about 667 sq. m), which makes Yuanyang the core area of the Honghe Hani terraced fields.

   2010, Dong Huai, “Yuanyang Terraced Fields”, in Discovering China: 50 Amazing Places in China, Better Link Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 140

   In fact, some of the seventy-three counties in Yunnan classified as poor contained attractive areas, yet few of these received either provincial or central government support for tourism development. For instance, the spectacular terraced rice fields of Yuanyang county in Honghe prefecture, designed 1,000 years ago during the Tang dynasty, are of a style rarely found in China.

   2011, John A. Donaldson, Small Works: Poverty and Economic Development in Southwestern China, Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 111

   My room has an unobstructed vista of the terraces cascading down the valley like a muddy waterfall. The night is serenaded by a frog chorus and at dawn I’m up with the rooster crow, ready to test my walking boots. Tourism in Yuanyang county has been designed for the tour-bus class, who follow a loop road around the valley, stopping off at various platforms to photograph the rice terraces but missing the points of interest in between.

   2020 July 4, Thomas Bird, “Hiking the Yuanyang rice terraces - get off the beaten track for the real deal”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2020, Travel

1. A county of Xinxiang, Henan, China.