Yen-ling

English

Historical map including Yanling (labeled as YEN-LING 鄢陵) and surrounding region (AMS, 1954)

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 鄢陵 (Yen¹-ling²).

Proper noun

Yen-ling

1. Alternative form of Yanling
   • 1964, Han Fei Tzu, translated by Burton Watson, Han Fei Tzu - Basic Writings‎^[1], Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 50:

     Long ago, when King Kung of Ch’u fought with Duke Li of Chin at Yen-ling, the Ch’u army was defeated and King Kung was wounded in the eye.

   • 1965, Cho-yun Hsu, Ancient China in Transition An Analysis of Social Mobility, 722-222 B.C.‎^[2], Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 19:

     Before joining battle, the officers and warriors gathered to make divinations "before the spirits of the former rulers," as at the battle of Yen-ling between Chin and Ch'u in 575 B.C.

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yenling”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2122, column 2

Anagrams

• leyning