Kuang-hsi

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 廣西广西 (Guǎngxī) Wade–Giles romanization: Kuang³-hsi¹.[1]

Proper noun

Kuang-hsi

  1. Alternative form of Guangxi
    • 1954, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China, Shoe String Press, published 1967, LCCN 67-16409, OCLC 473651484, OL 24127509M, page 12:
      Kuang-hsi Province offers limited areas of level land most of which is found in narrow valleys along the lower branches of the Yueh River system (of which the Hsi or West River is the chief).
    • 1998, Chin, R. D., “The Ba-Gua”, in Feng shui Revealed, New York: Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, LCCN 97-20867, OCLC 859047116, page 19:
      It was in the ninth century that a systematic approach to feng shui was compiled by a scholar named Yang Yun-sung based on observable phenomenon such as the natural formations of land. Yang lived in the province of Kuang-hsi, in southwest China, one of the most spectacularly scenic regions in the world. Its fantastically shaped hills and meandering rivers have been celebrated by Chinese painters and poets for centuries.

References

  1. Guangxi, (Wade-Giles romanization) Kuang-hsi Chuang-tsu Tzu-chih-ch’ü, in Encyclopædia Britannica

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