Yiling
See also: yīlíng and yìlíng
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) I-ling
Etymology
From Mandarin 夷陵 (Yílíng).
Proper noun
Yiling
- A district of Yichang, Hubei, China.
- 1966 [1954], Mao, Tse-tung, On Protracted War, 3rd edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, published 1967, OCLC 462846297, page 115:
- ²⁷ Yiling, to the east of the present Ichang, Hupeh Province, was the place where Lu Sun, a general of the state of Wu, defeated the army of Liu Pei, ruler of Shu, in A.D. 222. Liu Pei’s troops scored successive victories at the beginning of the war and penetrated five or six hundred li into the territory of Wu as far as Yiling. Lu Sun, who was defending Yiling, avoided battle for over seven months until Liu Pei “was at his wits’ end and his troops were exhausted and demoralized”. Then he crushed Liu Pei’s troops by taking advantage of a favourable wind to set fire to their tents.
- 2022 April 28, Li Qian, “Heartwarming scenes as wide-ranging support eases lockdown stress in Jing'an”, in Shanghai Daily, archived from the original on 15 June 2022:
- Yiling District of Yichang City, in Hubei Province, also didn't hesitate to mobilize local farmers and entrepreneurs to collect food for virus-hit Shanghai.
Within four days, it gathered 43 tons of local iconic produce including rice, orange and sweet potato-made snacks. It took nearly 24 hours for the goods to arrive in Shanghai.
"We bring with us the care and love of 600,000 Yilin people," said Zhao Feng, deputy director of Yiling.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yiling.
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Translations
a district in central China
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