Yuanyang

English

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 元陽元阳 (Yuányáng).

Proper noun

Yuanyang

  1. A county of Honghe, Yunnan, China.
    • 1975 December 28, “Calling for independence”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 51, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 3:
      The same report also said that between six and seven thousand Moslems in Yuanyang County, Yunnan Province, staged an armed uprising last July.
    • 2010, Dong Huai, “Yuanyang Terraced Fields”, in Discovering China: 50 Amazing Places in China, Better Link Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 140:
      Yuanyang terraced fields lie within the Yuanyang county of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, on the south part of Ailao Mountain, They are majestic and extend through the whole of Honghe, Yuanyang, Lüchun and Jinping counties on the south bank of the Honghe River. Only within Yuanyang county does it cover an area of about 17,000 mu (a Chinese unit, one mu equals about 667 sq. m), which makes Yuanyang the core area of the Honghe Hani terraced fields.
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Etymology 2

From Mandarin 原陽原阳 (Yuányáng).

Proper noun

Yuanyang

  1. A county of Xinxiang, Henan, China.
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