Xiping

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 西平.

Xiping

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).]

   • 1981 August, Zhao, Shouyi; Zhang Kezong, “A Day with Squad Six”, in China Reconstructs‎, volume XXX, number 8, OCLC 7513641, page 58:

     Liu Ruyi, a new recruit, comes from Xiping county in Henan province.

• Pingxi, pixing