Mien-yang

English

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 綿陽／绵阳 (Miányáng) Wade-Giles romanization: Mien³-yang².

Proper noun

Mien-yang

1. Alternative form of Mianyang
   • 1962, Carl Schuster, edited by Noel Barnard, Relations of a Chinese Embroidery Design: Eastern Europe and Western Asia, Southeast Asia (the Dong-son Culture) and Melanesia (Early Chinese Art and its Possible Influence in the Pacific Basin)‎^[1], volume 2, New York: Intercultural Arts Press, page 266:

     Of these sixteen specimens, four are from Mien-yang 綿陽 and two from a village north of Mien-yang in the same hsien, three are from P'eng-ch'i 蓬溪 one from She-hung 射洪, one from Sui-ning 遂寧 and five from T'ung-ch'uan 潼川 (San-t'ai 三台).

   • 1967, Tê-kʻun Chêng, Archaeological Studies in Szechwan‎^[2], Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page 144:

     Several tomb steles have been reported. The stele of the Chiang Wan 蔣琬 tomb in Mien-yang is only a large fragment of rectangular rock.

   • 1979, Neville Maxwell, China's Road to Development‎^[3], 2nd edition, Pergamon Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 285:

     According to the Chinese (the Office of Science and Technology of Mien-yang county, Szechwan), the best combinations for digester loading are 10 per cent human waste, 30 per cent animal waste, 10 per cent straw and grass, 50 per cent water; or 20 per cent human waste, 30 per cent hog manure and urine, and 50 per cent water; or 10 per cent each of human and animal waste, 30 per cent marsh grass and 50 per cent water.

Translations

Mianyang — see Mianyang

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 沔陽／沔阳 (Miǎnyáng) Wade-Giles romanization: Mien³-yang².

Map including Mien-yang (Hsien-t'ao-chien) (DMA, 1975)

Proper noun

Mien-yang

1. Alternative form of Mianyang
   • 1931 March, Rev. Alphonsus Ferguson, “The Curse on Peter Cheng”, in The Far East‎^[4], volume 14, number 3, page 13:

     FATHER LIAO had charge of all Mien-yang and could visit them but once in two years.

   • 1962, Chung-li Chang, The Income of the Chinese Gentry‎^[5], Seattle: University of Washington Press, page 264:

     Chu Ping-nan lived in the city of Mien-yang in the Chia-ch'ing period.

   • 1987, Judith M. Boltz, A Survey of Taoist Literature Tenth to Seventh Centuries‎^[6], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 April 2016, pages 185–186:

     The second is a hagiographic account of the Ch’üan-chen hierarchy from the original patriarchs down to the four generations preceding Ch’en: (1) Sung Te-fang 宋德方 (1183-1247) of Mien-yang 沔陽 (Hupeh), disciple of both Ma Yü and Ch’iu Ch’u-chi, and the editor-in-chief of the 1244 Canon; (2) Li Chüeh 李珏 of Ch’ung-ch’ing 崇慶^{[sic – meaning 重慶]} (Szechwan); (3) Chang Mo 張謨 of Jao-chou 饒州 (Kiangsi); and (4) Chao Yu-ch’in 趙友欽, who instructed Ch’en at Heng-yang 衡陽 (Hunan) in 1329.

Translations

Mianyang — see Mianyang