Zongyang
See also: Zōngyáng
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Tsung-yang
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 樅陽/枞阳 (Zōngyáng).
Proper noun
Zongyang
- A county of Tongling, Anhui, China.
- 2004, On the Move: Women and Rural-to-Urban Migration in Contemporary China, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 2003048900, OCLC 52121465, OL 9415652M, page 221:
- Migrants from Zongyang were also mostly in commerce, with very distant destinations. Men from one of the townships in Zongyang tended to do interior house decoration in Beijing, and therefore almost all their wives and children had been in Beijing at least once.
- 2019, 1636: The China Venture, →ISBN, LCCN 2019017544, OCLC 1120201354, OL 27308825M:
- Tongcheng
As the crow flies, it was about one hundred and thirty miles from Nanjing to the town of Tongcheng. However, not being equipped with wings, Fang Yizhi and his servant had taken a river boat up to Zongyang, the nearest Yangtze port.
Synonyms
- Congyang, Ts'ung-yang
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