Meaning of Fengshan | Babel Free

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A county of Hechi, Guangxi autonomous region, China.

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“On 20 April, 1991, while collecting taxes in Xiahe Township, Yao Yuanling, a tax assistant at Fengshan County, Guangxi, was hit on the head—with an ax—by a scoundrel, and died in the line of duty.”

“Huang Deyi, 51, a deputy city mayor in Guangxi autonomous region, stood trial this week after he confessed to taking more than 5 million yuan (HK$6 million) in bribes over six years, the Nanguo Morning News reported. The fall of Huang Deyi, 51, followed residents’ complaints that he had spent 50 million yuan to have the giant fresco carved at the entry to Fengshan county, which he headed at the time, in the northwest of the scenic but impoverished region.”

“In April, 1868, a mob destroyed the Roman Catholic and (English) Protestant churches at Fengshan, in Formosa, the exciting cause being a report that the missionaries were administering a poisonous drug in secret doses to win Formosa converts.”

“Scheduled to be completed in three stages by 1978, the freeway will link Keelung on the north coast of Taiwan near Taipei with Fengshan near the seaport of Kaohsiung, in southwest Taiwan.[...] Construction will get under way in May next for the 55-kilometer (33-mile) section between Tainan and Fengshan and in January 1976 for still another section between Hsinchu and Taichung, in central Taiwan.”

“WeiWuYing is a performing arts centre in the Fengshan District of Kaohsiung, in Taiwan. Completed in 2018 by Orgelbau Klais Bonn, the centre’s great instrument has 127 stops and 9,085 pipes. By all accounts, it is the largest pipe organ in Asia.”

“Police are of course not immune to the disease, with over 400 of them coming down with COVID in Kaohsiung City.[…] In addition to the police, Fengshan is currently the district with the largest number of confirmed cases in Kaohsiung.”

“The “temple” refers to Whampoa Island in China’s Guangzhou Province, where the academy was founded, and “god” refers to the ROC Military Academy in Kaohsiung’s Fengshan District (鳳山).[…] In 1950, it moved to Fengshan after Chengdu fell into the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government relocated to Taiwan.”

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