Tongliang

See also: tōngliàng

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 銅梁 (Tóngliáng).

Proper noun

Tongliang

1. A district of Chongqing, China.
   • 1996, Robert E. Entenmann, “Catholics and Society in Eighteenth-Century Sichuan”, in Daniel H. Bays, editor, Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present‎^[1], Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 13, 21:

     Because the hamlet was the home of one of the few priests in eastern Sichuan, Catholics from as far away as Chongqing and the neighboring districts of Yongchuan, Tongliang, He Zhou, and Fu Zhou came to the hamlet seeking Gu to receive sacraments and to participate in worship.[...]The Ma family had migrated to nearby Baxian, the Qius to Fu Zhou, and the Songs to Tongliang.

   • 2012, Jigang Zhou, Peng Guangcan, Ceng Zhen, “China's Water Crisis May Be Helped by Trading Water Rights”, in Noah Berlatsky, editor, Water‎^[2], Greenhaven Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 81:

     On April 1, 2008, the Tongliang county water authority in Chongqing, southwest China, approved Zhu Jiaping’s application for water usage.

   • 2022 April 8, “Muralists decorate countryside with creativity, passion”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[3], archived from the original on 08 April 2022‎^[4]:

     In 2020, Liu and his partner began painting walls free of charge and full of love and passion. Their first works were painted on the walls of an ancient town in Tongliang District of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. In about three months, they finished seven mural paintings.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 銅梁 (zh) (Tóngliáng)

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