Kin Sha

Kinsha Kin-sha English Etymology From the Nanjing-dialect (later Postal Romanization) romanization of cmn 金沙. Proper noun 1 en Jinsha (River in China) en 1901 Archibald John Little From Kiating Back to Chungking Mount Omi and Beyond: A Record of Travel on the Thibetan Border https://archive.org/details/cu31924023225760/ London w:William Heinemann 251154330 227 https://archive.org/details/cu31924023225760/page/n276/ Suifu, as it is universally called, or Hsu Chow Fu, as it is officially designated, is most advantageously situated at the junction of the two great rivers, the Min and the Kin Sha ("Gold Sand"), which here unite and form the mighty Yangtze. en 1916 July Herbert W. L. Way The Minerals of Sze-chuan, China w:The Mining Magazine https://archive.org/details/miningmagazine15londuoft/ XV 1 0308-6631 11504687 22 https://archive.org/details/miningmagazine15londuoft/page/22/ From the Chien Chang valley through which flows the An Ning river on the east, to the Tibetan frontier on the west, and from Ta Chien Lu on the north to the Kin Sha river (or river of golden sand) on the south, there is a stretch of country having an area of 40,000 square miles that is without doubt richer in mineral wealth than any other part of China, and one of the most highly mineralized spots in the whole world. en 1958 January Chi-yun Chang The Historical Development of the Land of China Chinese Culture: A Quarterly Review https://archive.org/details/sim_chinese-culture_1958-01_1_3/ I 3 Taipei Chinese Culture University Press 0009-4544 951133100 82 https://archive.org/details/sim_chinese-culture_1958-01_1_3/page/82/ Very little was known about the geography of the Southwest until the time of Hsu Hsia-keh, who visited that area towards the close of the Ming Dynasty. It was only then that people came to know that the Kin Sha River was in fact the upper course of the Yangtze River and that the Red River, the Mekong and the Salween flowed into the South China Sea separately. en See also en Kin Sha Kiang