Huguan

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 壺關 / 壶关 (Húguān).

Proper noun

Huguan

  1. A county of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.
    • 1982 September, Haiqing Zhang, “Better Transport Livens Up a Mountain Area”, in China Reconstructs‎[1], volume XXI, number 9, →OCLC, page 43:
      THE dense forests and deep ravines of the Taihang Moutnaisn once made southeastern Shanxi province one of China's more backward areas in transportation.[...]A commune in Huguan county once went in for collecting mountain products such as fruit and medicinal herbs, in the hope that they could be got out, but because of insufficient transport a thousand tons of them rotted one year.
    • 2008, Meir Shahar, “Hand Combat”, in The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts‎[2], Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 125:
      When I was eighteen I obtained Master Zhang Kongzhao’s Hand Combat Classic (Quan jing), which he compiled while serving under my clan’s remote great-uncle in Huguan County (in Southeastern Shanxi, near Henan’s border).
    • 2008, “Jia Fangzhou”, in Zhu Wei's Album of Ink Painting [朱伟水墨册页1988—2008]‎[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 509, column 1:
      Born in Huguan County in Shanxi, Xia Fangzhou graduated from the Art Department of Inner Mongolia Normal University in 1964 and worked for museums and newspapers for many years.

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