Huayin

See also: huáyīn, huàyīn, and Huàyīn

English

Alternative forms

• Hua-yin (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 華陰／华阴 (Huàyīn).

Proper noun

Huayin

1. A county-level city in Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
   • 1956, Bernard Llewellyn, “The Queen of Concubines Yang Kuei-fei”, in China's Courts and Concubines‎^[1], London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, page 92:

     Mistress Yang was born in 718 in the little town of Huayin in the province of Shensi,² through which the modern Lunghai railway runs on its way from Ch'angan to the sea.

   • 1987, Hedda Morrison, Travels of a Photographer in China, 1933-1946‎^[2], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 52, 244:

     I visited Hua Shan in the summer of 1935. It was an easy place to reach because the train to Sian stopped conveniently at a little place called Hua Yin, which means ‘under the shadow of Hua Shan’. The Hua Shan massif did indeed dominate Hua Yin.

     Hua Yin 華陰 Huayin

   • 1988, Michael Buckley, Cycling to Xian and other excursions‎^[3], Crazyhorse Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 112:

     HUAYIN IS THE TOWN at the base of the holy mountain of Huashan.

   • 1993, Bill Porter, Road to Heaven‎^[4], San Francisco: Mercury House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 61–62:

     The place where Huashan’s Taoist caretaker gave Yao this advice is known as Huafeng. It’s about three kilometers east of the present county seat of Huayin. Unfortunately, the last artifacts of the former sacrificial center were destroyed in 1958 during Mao’s Great Leap Forward, and the site is now better known for the neolithic remains discovered there since then. Two other shrines have also disappeared. One built at the beginning of the Chou dynasty south of Huayin has become Huashan High School.

   • 2006 October 2, “Mao's ill-conceived dam still a curse for villagers”, in South China Morning Post‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on May 15, 2021, Latest‎^[6]:

     But, the 4 billion yuan project was a failure and instead intensified flooding in Huayin, a county-level city under Weinan, where the Wei River - a tributary of the Yellow River - flowed backwards because its river bed was raised by more than 5 metres. In the 1960s, the central government scaled back the project.

   • 2007 December 24, Shipeng Guo, Benjamin Kang Lim, “China detains farmers urging land privatization”, in Lindsay Beck, Roger Crabb, editors, Reuters‎^[7], archived from the original on 11 March 2023, World News‎^[8]:

     Police in Huayin in the northwestern province of Shaanxi made the “criminal detentions” earlier this month, suspecting the three of “inciting to subvert state power”, Ruan Xiuqin, wife of Chen Sizhong, one of the farmers, told Reuters by telephone.

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 華陰／华阴 (zh) (Huàyīn)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huayin”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[9], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1325, column 1

Anagrams

• yuhina