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P'eng-shui
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Pengshui
English
Etymology
From en cmn 彭水 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Pʻêng²-shui³.
Proper noun
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en Pengshui.
en 1899 E. H. Parker Nan-ch‘uan and the Kung-t‘an River Up the Yang-tse https://archive.org/details/upyangtse00park/ Shanghai w:Kelly & Walsh 615648640 146 https://archive.org/details/upyangtse00park/page/146/ The roads to Kung-t‘an on the frontier, and to P‘êng-shui Hien, two places about equidistant from Wu-ch‘uan, both pass Chên-nan Ch‘iao, a small market hamlet 60 li from the city.
en 1976 James B. Parsons YANG Ying-lung<t:楊應龍> w:L. Carrington Goodrich; Chaoying Fang Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368-1644<t:zh 明代名人傳> II https://archive.org/details/bwb_W6-BZR-493/ New York; London w:Columbia University Press 0-231-03833-X 75-26938 1622199 1554 https://archive.org/details/bwb_W6-BZR-493/page/1554/ 1 One was to suppress Yang through the forthright use of military force and the other, apparently most favored by provincial officials and the gentry families in the general Kweichow-Szechwan border area, advocated the employment of political means. The latter eventually prevailed and no military moves against Yang were undertaken. Instead, he was persuaded to submit himself to judicial proceedings, and, after refusing to appear before any tribunal in Kweichow, he consented to go to P’eng-shui zh 彭水, Szechwan, in 1590.