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Li-shui
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Lishui Líshuǐ Lìshuǐ
English
thumb|Map including LI-SHUI (CHUCHOW) (Army Map Service AMS, 1961)
Etymology
From en cmn 麗水 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Li²-shui³.
Proper noun
1 1
en Lishui.
en 1970 w:Arthur Waley At Peking, 1736 to 1743 Yuan Mei: Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet https://archive.org/details/yuanmeieighteent00wale/ Stanford, California w:Stanford University Press 70-107646 491178461 30 https://archive.org/details/yuanmeieighteent00wale/page/30/ In 1743, at the early age of 27, he became Prefect of Li-shui, about 50 miles south-east of Nanking.
en 1970 w:Wolfram Eberhard Studies in Chinese Folklore and Related Essays https://archive.org/details/studiesinchinese0042eber/ 0-87750-147-5 79-630297 898846701 4072208M 22 https://archive.org/details/studiesinchinese0042eber/page/22/ In the fields near Li-shui there is an enormous camphor tree (illustration 1.) with a built-in niche containing incense cones and an earthenware dish for sacrifices. I also noticed a large number of prayer notes.
en 2009 Terri Hardin Terrifying Tales: Stories of the Occult from Around the World https://archive.org/details/terrifyingtaless0000unse/ Fall River Press 978-1-4351-1680-1 649826511 344 https://archive.org/details/terrifyingtaless0000unse/page/344/ Skulls may haunt even without being so bitterly provoked. The country of Ch'u-cheu (in Chekiang province) is very mountainous. There, in the district of Li-shui, situated south of the peak of the Residence of the Immortal Genies, farmers plowing and sowing often break up waste ground, even as far as halfway up the mountains.
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Translations
Lishui