Yenshui
English
Etymology
From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 鹽水 (Yen²-shui³).
Proper noun
Yenshui
- Alternative form of Yanshuei
- 1981 December 13, “Scenery, relics in Tainan”, in Free China Weekly (自由中國週報), volume XXII, number 49, Taipei, ISSN 0016-0318, OCLC 1786626, page 2, column 2:
- A total area of more than 650 hectares is scheduled for industrial use at Yenshui, Hsuehchia, Chiali, Anting, Liuying, Jenteh, and Shanshang.
- 1998, Storey, Robert, “South-West Taiwan”, in Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 4th edition, →ISBN, OCLC 970524541, OL 8314799M, page 292, column 2:
- Yenshui is a fairly ordinary town situated between Tainan and Chiayi. However, during the Lantern Festival, on the 15th day of the first moon, the whole town goes insane.
- 2003, Gregory, Leland, Hey, Idiot!, Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, OCLC 52459685, page 89:
- To commemorate the hundred-year anniversary of eliminating the plague, citizens of Yenshui, Taiwan, held a celebration with fireworks.
- 2010 February 27, “Fireworks festival in Tainan County unveiled with deafening fanfare”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 24 September 2022, Culture:
- An annual two-day fireworks festival -- the Yenshui Beehive Fireworks Festival -- opened in the town of the same name in southern Taiwan's Tainan County Saturday morning and will culminate in a finale on Sunday night.
- 2015 December 21, Chen, Wei-han, “Tonnes of toxic slag found dumped in Chiayi County”, in Taipei Times, archived from the original on 05 July 2018:
- The slag was reportedly dumped at the site by members of a nearby temple. It was sourced from a contractor at Walsin Lihwa Co’s (華新麗華) steel plant in Tainan’s Yenshui District (鹽水) and was to be used in the construction of a parking lot, said Chung Hwa University of Medical Technology professor Huang Huan-chang (黃煥彰), who exposed the incident.
- 2019 November 28 [2018], tango42, “Tainan Yenshui Beehive Fireworks Festival 18-19 Feb 2019 鹽水蜂炮節”, in Forumosa, archived from the original on 20 January 2021:
- It appears to be Thursday March 1 2018 sandwiched between 228 Holiday and Lantern festival Holiday making for what could be a long 5 day weekend for some people. (Yenshui seems to be used more than Yanshui for the event title even though event is in Yanshui)
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yenshui.
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Translations
Yanshuei — see Yanshuei
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yenshui”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 3525, column 2