Meaning of Chin-hua | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“At that time the surrounding country constantly harried by banditti who had occupied a stronghold in the mountains between Tʻai-chou and Chin-hua.”

“Porcelain painted in blue and white, and also that decorated with the deep blue monochrome glaze, both require this blue. It is obtained from the province of Chêkiang, being found on several mountains within the two prefectures of Shao-hsing and Chin-hua.”

“Before entering the priesthood he had already made a name for himself in Lan-hsi (modern Chin-hua in Chekiang Province) as a scholar and calligraphist under his family name Chiang.”

“In 1941, Eberhard published a supplementary monograph in the same series, Volksmärchen aus Südost-China, Sammlung Ts'ao Sung-yeh, which offered the actual texts of 190 folktales translated into German, corresponding to many of the tale types he had previously established. This collection was chiefly obtained from schoolchildren in Chin-hua in Chekiang province, the seat of the aboriginal Yao culture.”

“An illustration of this is provided by the Lan-ch'i County Gazetteer (Lan-ch'i hsien-chih) for the Cheng-te reign (1506-1521), which gives the following figures from a survey made around 1228 in Lan-ch'i county in Wu-chou (present-day Chin-hua) in Chekiang:”

“My friend Huang Meng-sheng’s ancestors originally came from Chin-hua in Wu-chou and later moved to Fen-ning in Hung-chou.⁴⁰”

“A bright boy, he received training at home but tended to be lazy. At the age of twenty-one, he was sent to Chin-hua in Chekiang to study with Lü Tsu-ch’ien (1137- 1181).”

“The Chinese raise pork in large quantities, but prefer to eat it in the form of cutlets, fillet, ribs, and so on. However, the city of Chin-Hua, in the Shanghai region, has developed a unique ham specialty. There ham is cooked with numerous spices and has a pronounced[…]”

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