Chin-hua

English

Etymology

From Mandarin Chinese 金華／金华 (Jīnhuá, “golden flourishing”) romanization: Chin¹-hua².

Proper noun

Chin-hua

1. Alternative form of Jinhua
   • 1965, Richard M. Dorson, “Foreword”, in Folktales of China‎^[1], →LCCN, →OCLC, page xxix:

     In 1941, Eberhard published a supplementary monograph in the same series, Volksmärchen aus Südost-China, Sammlung Ts'ao Sung-yeh, which offered the actual texts of 190 folktales translated into German, corresponding to many of the tale types he had previously established. This collection was chiefly obtained from schoolchildren in Chin-hua in Chekiang province, the seat of the aboriginal Yao culture.

   • 1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China‎^[2], published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 135:

     An illustration of this is provided by the Lan-ch'i County Gazetteer (Lan-ch'i hsien-chih) for the Cheng-te reign (1506-1521), which gives the following figures from a survey made around 1228 in Lan-ch'i county in Wu-chou (present-day Chin-hua) in Chekiang:

   • 1989, Wing-tsit Chan, Chu Hsi New Studies‎^[3], Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 37:

     A bright boy, he received training at home but tended to be lazy. At the age of twenty-one, he was sent to Chin-hua in Chekiang to study with Lü Tsu-ch’ien (1137- 1181).

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chin-hua.