Shaohing

English Etymology Borrowed from en cmn 紹興. Pronunciation shouʹhǐngʹ Proper noun en Shaoxing. en https://archive.org/details/cycleofcathayorc00mart/mode 1897 A Cycle of Cathay: Or, China, South and North W. A. P. Martin Fleming H. Revell Company 794138159 113 https://archive.org/details/cycleofcathayorc00mart/page/n123/mode/ On our way back we explored the city of Shaohing, in which, as in Venice, the streets are canals, and boats the common vehicles. en https://archive.org/details/provinceschina00brucgoog/mode/2up 1910 The Provinces of China, Together with a History of the First Year of H.I.M. Hsuan Tung, and an Account of the Government of China "The National Review" Office Shanghai 132 https://archive.org/details/provincesofchina00bruciala/page/132/mode/ Farming is everywhere the chief industry of the people, but besides the silk spinning and weaving, the paper fan, mat, and hat manufacture, and the curing of fish, already mentioned, wine is made of a fermented liquor derived from rice at Shaohing and is celebrated all over China, hams are cured in the Kinhwa prefecture, and wood carving and inlaid furniture are manufactured at Ningpo. en 1934 George Cressey George Babock Cressey The Yangtze Plain China's Geographic Foundations: A Survey of the Land and Its People https://archive.org/details/chinasgeographic0000cres/ McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 715303399 6300298M 298 https://archive.org/details/chinasgeographic0000cres/page/298/ Cotton is a summer crop of increasing importance, especially in Kiangsu north of the Yangtze, and near Shaohing in Chekiang, the annual yield being estimated at 500,000 and 100,000 bales of 500 lb. each, respectively.