Heungshan
English
Alternative forms
- Heung Shan
Etymology
Borrowed from Cantonese 香山 (hoeng1 saan1), the former name of Zhongshan.
Proper noun
Heungshan
- (dated) Synonym of Zhongshan.
- 1895, E. J. Eitel, Europe in China: The History of Hongkong from the Beginning to the Year 1882, London: Luzac & Company, page 320:
- In accordance with the urgent resolutions unamimously passed by this meeting, Sir John boldly departed from Elgin’s line of policy and issued (July 31, 1858) a proclamation emphatically threatening the Heungshan and Sanon Districts with the retributive vengeance of the British Government if servants and food supplies were withheld any longer. Copies of this proclamation were successfully delivered at Heungshan by a party of British marines, but when H.M.S. Starling conveyed copies of the same proclamation to Sanon, a boat’s crew, while under a flag of truce, were fired upon by the braves of Namtao.
- 1910, Hosea Ballou Morse, The International Relations Of The Chineses Empire, Longmans, Green, and Co., page 43-44:
- The Portuguese have always claimed for Macao an independence of Chinese jurisdiction which the Chinese government, until 1887, never admitted. Much has been said of a “Golden Chop” constituting the charter of the colony, which is said to have been granted by the Chinese emperor, and to have been lost; but there is no record that any unofficial person ever saw it. The facts are all against the claim. Rent, a full recognition of sovereignty, was paid to the Heungshan Hien, from the very beginning until Governor Amaral's coup d’état in 1849.
- 1915 September 24, F. D. Cheshire, “The Famous Lichee of China”, in Commercial Reports: Daily Consular and Trade Reports, volume 3, number 224, page 1434:
- The principal lichee-producing districts in Kwangtung Province are Namhoi, Pun Yu, Tsang Shing, and Tung Kun. Some lichees are grown in the Heungshan, Shuntak, and Samshui districts, and while they are produced in abundance in the Yeung Kong and Shui Tung districts they are of inferior quality.