Xinzheng
See also: xīnzhēng
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新鄭 / 新郑 (Xīnzhèng).
Pronunciation
- enPR: shĭnʹjǔngʹ
- Hyphenation: Xin‧zheng
Proper noun
Xinzheng
- A county-level city of Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
- 1987, Jessica Rawson, “The Eastern Zhou Period”, in Chinese Bronzes: Art and Ritual[1], British Museum Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 47:
- Tight and dense motifs occur on bronzes excavated in 1923 from a tomb at Lijialou at Xinzheng Xian in southern Henan attributed to the small state of Zheng. [...]The special interest of the Xinzheng bronzes is their diversity.
- 2015 May 26, Sascha Matuszak, “Cradle of civilisation”, in South China Morning Post[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 September 2021[3]:
- Xinzheng City, outside Zhengzhou, has built the Xuanyuan Temple and a museum dedicated to the Yellow Emperor, in honour of the time he spent at Xuanyuan Hill, to which he lent one of his names.
Translations
county-level city
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xinzheng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3504, column 3