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Longxi
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Lǒngxī
English
+ County, Gansu
Longxi County
Alternative forms
en Lung-hsi Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of en cmn 隴西 Lǒngxī.
Pronunciation
lo͝ong′shē′Lungsi or Lung-hsi 1097 3 Until 1913 called Kungchang.
en Long xi
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Dingxi p/Gansu c/China.
en 1973 November Chen Chang Fossils Sent from Across the Land w:China Reconstructs https://archive.org/details/cr196912/CR1973-11/ Peking XXII 11 7513641 43 https://archive.org/details/cr196912/CR1973-11/page/n44/ 3 In early 1971 we received a box of fossils and a letter from a worker at an alcohol plant in Lunghsi county, Kansu province. on
en October 07, 1975 September 04, 1975 Fukien County Schools Combine Study, Work Activity Translations on People's Republic of China https://books.google.com/books?id=ZKsVAAAAMAAJ w:United States Joint Publications Research Service 320 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030776283&seq=41 Peking NCNA Domestic Service zh 2370938 Political and Sociological 9 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030776283&seq=55 https://books.google.com/books?id=ZKsVAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PP17 Middle and primary schools in Lunghsi County, Fukien, have vigorously popularized part-time work and part-time study activities. Before liberation, Lunghsi County was very backward in education, but after liberation, particularly since the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Lunghsi has made rapid progress in education. on
en 1997 Dongdong Dai Shepherd Girl Howard Giskin Chinese Folktales https://archive.org/details/chinesefolktales0000gisk_j6j5/ Lincolnwood, Illinois NTC Publishing 0-8442-5927-6 96-7983 34547212 8243566M 54 https://archive.org/details/chinesefolktales0000gisk_j6j5/page/54/ I come from Longxi County in Gansu Province.
en November 29, 2021 iQIYI Debuts Original Series Luoyang Globally, As Part of Its IP Universe https://web.archive.org/web/20211129065312/https://apnews.com/press-release/pr-newswire/entertainment-china-beijing-6f50d1392481baba418d74bbd9b69ccc 29 November 2021 AP News, PR Newswire The launch marks Luoyang the first city to be featured in the iQIYI Chinese Historic City Universe (iCHCU), which, encompassing a variety of content drawing inspiration from Beijing, Guangzhou, Longxi county of Dingxi, Dunhuang, Nanjing, and other Chinese cities, aims to bridge between China’s local culture and iQIYI’s global audience.
en historical A region in Gansu west of Mount Long.
en 2015 David Whitehouse The Messengers Journey to the Centre of the Earth: The Remarkable Voyage of Scientific Discovery into the Heart our World https://archive.org/details/journeytocentreo0000whit/ w:Weidenfeld & Nicolson 978-0-297-60880-6 905096084 60 https://archive.org/details/journeytocentreo0000whit/page/60/ On one occasion, or so legend has it, a ball fell from a dragon; when no tremor could be felt, scholars were mystified. But many days later came reports of an earthquake in Longxi (present-day Western Gansu Province) a thousand kilometres away.
en historical A commandery of ancient China in the southern area of present-day Gansu.
Translations
county
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 隴西
Mandarin: cmn 隴西 Lǒngxī
References
Further reading
en 1998 Longxi 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 1777 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1777/ 1
Anagrams
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