Huangling
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Huang-ling
Etymology
From Mandarin 黃陵／黄陵.
Proper noun
Huangling
- A county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.
- 1979 August, Lan Cao, “Tomb of the Yellow Emperor”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXVIII, number 8, China Welfare Institute, ISSN 0009-4447, OCLC 1554324, page 64, column 1:
- HUANG DI, the legendary Yellow Emperor to whom is attributed the founding of the Chinese nation about 2000 B.C., is said to have been buried on the loess plateau. There is a tomb in Shaanxi province’s Huangling county which has long been honored as his.
- 1981, A Pictorial History of the Republic of China: Its Founding and Development, volume II, Modern China Press, OCLC 8883106, page 72:
- On April 4, 1938, Chang Kuo-tao, another leader of the Chinese Communists, went from Yenan, Shensi, to Chungpu (renamed Huangling, 1944) in his capacity of acting chairman of the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Government to attend the sacrificial services to the tomb of the Yellow Emperor.
- 1982, Malloy, Ruth Lor, The Morrow Travel Guide to the People's Republic of China, 2nd Revised edition, Quill, →ISBN, LCCN 82-3713, OCLC 8345940, OL 3484237M, page 243:
- The Cave Temple of a Thousand Buddhas (Tang) is halfway up Ziwu Hill in the western part of Huangling county.
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Translations
county
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huangling”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1322, column 3