Chongming

chóngmíng Chóngmíng English Chongming District thumb|right|300px|Chongming District in Shanghai Alternative forms obsolete en Chungming, en Ch'ung-ming, en Tsungming Etymology The atonal en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 崇明 Lofty & Bright, initially given as the name of a town on the island in 705. Pronunciation en /t͡ʃʊŋˈmɪŋ/ /t͡ʃɒŋˈmɪŋ/ cho͝ongʹmǐngʹen 1952 Tsungming or Ch’ung-ming Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1955 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1955/ 1 en Chong ming Proper noun en historical en former town p/Jiangsu c/China. en island at the mouth of the Yangtze River in eastern c/China. en 17 November 2021 China's millennial 'new farmers' opt to live off the land https://web.archive.org/web/20211117030907/https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20211117-china-s-millennial-new-farmers-opt-to-live-off-the-land 17 November 2021 w:France 24 Empty insideHu, who has worked in marketing and supply chains for French companies like personal-care giant L'Oreal and sports retailer Decathlon, said that in her career she "appeared happy on the outside, but felt empty inside."She now sows organic, pesticide- and fertiliser-free sweet potatoes, long beans and other crops on rented plots of land with like-minded friends on Chongming, a large, primarily agricultural island on Shanghai's outskirts.Liang, who moved to Chongming three years ago, has had to rapidly learn horticulture -- his farmer neighbours and internet websites help -- while dabbling in side work online for extra income. en district city/Shanghai c/China, consisting of Chongming Island as well as Changxing, Hengsha, and other smaller islands in the Yangtze. en APRIL 21, 2022 Brenda Goh; Ella Cao; Marius Zaharia Shanghai people 'not free to fly' out of homes as COVID cases tick back up Simon Cameron-Moore https://web.archive.org/web/20230401213712/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-idCAKCN2MD0BA 01 April 2023 w:Reuters At a regular press conference, an official from the Chongming district, an outlying island area, said most curbs would be kept in place, although it has reported zero cases outside quarantined areas and 90% of its 640,000-or-so residents were now in theory allowed to leave their homes. Translations island and district in Shanghai, China Chinese: Cantonese: yue 崇明 Mandarin: cmn 崇明 Marathi: mr छुंगमिंग References Further reading en 2008 Chongming Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 791 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/791/ 3