Wuyang

See also: wúyàng

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 舞陽 / 舞阳 (Wǔyáng).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: wo͞oʹyängʹ[1]

Proper noun

Wuyang

  1. A county of Luohe, Henan, China.
    • 1951 May, Survey of China Mainland Press‎[2], numbers 101-126, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38:
      18,000 workers of Wuyang County in Honan who are now concentrating on building water detention work, in coordinated efforts with hundreds of thousands of workers in the river's upper reaches, have as a result registered an average of 3.8 cubic meters of earthwork per man each day. This is twice last year's rate.
    • 1976 February 10 [1976 February 9], “Honan Schools Launch Great Education Debate”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 28, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengchow Honan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page H 1:
      "The party branch of the No 1 (Kung) district middle school in Wuyang County has continued to take the class struggle as the key link, given free rein to the masses, vehemently criticized the curious theories in education circles, and hit back at the rightist wind to reverse verdicts. In order to make a success of this great debate on the education revolution, the party branch of the No 1 (Kung) District middle school in Wuyang County has seriously studied Chairman Mao's series of important instructions and his teaching 'Stability and unity do not mean writing off class struggle; class struggle is the key link and everything else hinges on it,' and further understood that the current curious theories in education circles are the concentrated reflection of the struggles between the two classes, roads and lines.
    • [2009, Dan Docherty, Tai Chi Chuan: Decoding the Classics for the Modern Martial Artist‎[3], Crowood Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 40:
      Many books relate how, in 1852, the five major TCC Classics turn up in a salt store in Wu Yang County, Henan, where Yang’s student, Wu Cheng-qing, happens to be the local magistrate.]
    • 2015 October 31, “Henan horror: 17 builders killed as residential property collapses in central China, 9 people in serious condition”, in South China Morning Post‎[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 October 2015, China‎[5]:
      Rescuers search for survivors in Beiwudu Town, Wuyang County in central China's Henan Province on Friday. […] The local government in Wuyang county, where the accident occurred, had called off the search by Saturday, the official Xinhua news agency said.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Wuyang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2109, column 2

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