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Huguan
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English
Huguan County
Alternative forms
en Hu-kuan Hukuan Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 壺關 Húguān.
Pronunciation
ho͞o′gwän′Hukwan or Hu-kuan 812 2
en Hu guan
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Changzhi province/Shanxi c/China.
en 1982 September Haiqing Zhang Better Transport Livens Up a Mountain Area w:China Reconstructs https://archive.org/details/cr196912/CR1982-09/ XXI 9 7513641 43 https://archive.org/details/cr196912/CR1982-09/page/n44/ THE dense forests and deep ravines of the Taihang Moutnaisn once made southeastern Shanxi province one of China's more backward areas in transportation.[...]A commune in Huguan county once went in for collecting mountain products such as fruit and medicinal herbs, in the hope that they could be got out, but because of insufficient transport a thousand tons of them rotted one year.
en 2008 w:Meir Shahar Hand Combat The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts https://archive.org/details/shaolinmonastery0000shah/ Honolulu w:University of Hawaiʻi Press 978-0-8248-3349-7 2007032532 602911450 125 https://archive.org/details/shaolinmonastery0000shah/page/125/ When I was eighteen I obtained Master Zhang Kongzhao’s Hand Combat Classic (Quan jing), which he compiled while serving under my clan’s remote great-uncle in Huguan County (in Southeastern Shanxi, near Henan’s border).
en 2008 Jia Fangzhou Zhu Wei's Album of Ink Painting<t:zh 朱伟水墨册页1988—2008> https://archive.org/details/zhuweisalbumofin0000zhuw/ 978-988-17473-1-0 297483681 509 https://archive.org/details/zhuweisalbumofin0000zhuw/page/509/ 1 Born in Huguan County in Shanxi, Xia Fangzhou graduated from the Art Department of Inner Mongolia Normal University in 1964 and worked for museums and newspapers for many years.
Translations
county
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 壺關
Mandarin: cmn 壺關 Húguān
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
en 1998 Huguan Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1329 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1329/ 2