Biyang

See also: biyang, bīyǎng, bīyàng, and Bìyáng

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 泌陽泌阳 (Bìyáng).

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Biyang

  1. A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.
    • [1968, “Ceramics: Han-Sung”, in Chinese Art from The Cloud Wampler and other Collections in the Everson Museum, LCCN 68-58832, OCLC 907488687, page 58:
      That Honan was the locus of manufacture for wares of the splashed black-glazed variety is suggested by the number of examples excavated in that province (for a reference to wares of this type excavated in Hsi-p’ing-hsien, Honan, see Sekai Tōji Zenshū, IX, 191; for a blue-glazed jar—similar in glaze and in the shape and disposition of its spots to the Palace Museum jar mentioned earlier—excavated at Pan-ch’iao, Mi-yang-hsien, Honan, see Wen Wu, 1954/9, Plate 59).]
    • 2021 March 2, Lu, Yameng, “Marriage of 55-year-old man, 20-year-old mentally ill woman triggers debate”, in Global Times, archived from the original on 02 March 2021:
      For the two to live together is not against the law, but they cannot get a marriage license, as the woman's mental disability means she cannot clearly express her willingness to get married, said a local official in the government of Biyang County of Zhumadian City, Central China's Henan Province on Monday.

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