Yongshou

See also: Yǒngshòu

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 永壽／永寿 (Yǒngshòu).

Proper noun

Yongshou

1. A county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
   • [1914, Alexander Hosie, On the Trail of the Opium Poppy‎^[1], volume I, Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, →OCLC, page 165:

     There was little poppy cultivation to note during the day : when nearing the uplands after leaving Pin Chou I saw a man carrying a bundle of poppy-stalks, with capsules, down hill and near the village of Ti-yao-kou, ten miles from Yung-shou Hsien, but still within the department of Pin Chou, I observed one field of poppy-stems with capsules from which the opium had been collected.
     Between Pin Chou and Yung-shou Hsien the cart traffic was the heaviest I had seen since leaving Lan-chou.]

   • 1999, Tony Lambert, “A survey of church growth, province by province”, in China's Christian Millions‎^[2], Monarch Books, published 2006, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 265:

     Yongshou County to the north-west of Xi’an has also seen growth: from 1,200 Christians in just one church in 1992 to over 4,000 baptised believers in thirteen churches in 1996.

   • 2007, Shen Honglei [申宏磊], Lei Xiangqing [雷向晴], “International NGO Participation in China's Poverty Reduction Efforts”, in Zhou Xiaogang [周晓刚], transl., International Aid Projects for Poverty Alleviation in China [国际扶贫援助项目在中国] (China in Peaceful Development [中国的和平发展系列])‎^[3], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 82:

     Plan’s small-sum loan project has been implemented in Yongshou County, Shaanxi Province. (Now Plan has been trying out the project in 14 selected places in Hebei, Gansu, Guizhou and Shaanxi provinces as well as Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.)

   • 2019, Tian Yonggang et al., “Organic Renewal of Sunken Yaodongs in Guanzhong: A Case study of Dengjiapo village in Yongshou County, Xianyang, Shaanxi”, in Journal of Landscape Research‎^[4], volume 11, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on August 21, 2024, page 110, column 1:

     Yongshou County is located in the central part of the north of Weibei region in Shaanxi […] Dengjiapo Village is located 45 km northwest of Yongshou County.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 永壽／永寿 (zh) (Yǒngshòu)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yongshou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3532, column 1