Yün-meng

See also: Yunmeng

English

Map including Yün-meng (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 雲夢／云梦 (Yúnmèng), Wade–Giles romanization: Yün²-mêng⁴.

Proper noun

Yün-meng

1. Alternative form of Yunmeng
   • 1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China‎^[1], Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21:

     There are two principal lacustrine areas in South China, one among the hills in the middle Yangtze consisting of the remnants of the ancient Lake Yün-meng, and including such major lakes as Tung-tʻing (Hupei) and Po-yang (Kiangsi); and another situated on the lower Yangtze-Huai plain, which includes such major lakes as Hung-tze and Tʻai.

   • 1979, The Journal of Asian Studies‎^[2], volume 38, numbers 3-4, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 472:

     Another major discovery of Ch'in bamboo strips occurred in December 1975 at Yün-meng, Hupei. This burial site was the tomb of a Ch'in local administrator who died in 217 B.C., only four years after unification.

   • 1982, Thomas Lawton, “Bronze Vessels, Fittings, and Weapons”, in Chinese Art of the Warring States Period‎^[3], Smithsonian Institution, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 25, column 2:

     A ting with a bronze body and iron legs was found m the important Ch’in dynasty tomb 11 at Shui-hu-tui, Yün-meng Hsien, Hupei Province, in 1975.

Translations

Yunmeng — see Yunmeng

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yünmeng”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2131, column 3