Meaning of Lüeyang | Babel Free

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A county of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China.

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“Fu Lang's ancestral home was Linwei (臨渭) in Lüeyang (略陽) commandery (northeast of modern Tianshui (天水), Gansu).”

“Xingzhou was more than five hundred kilometers northeast of Chengdu, in modern Lüeyang 略陽 county, across today's border with Shaanxi.”

“Lueyang county is located in the Qing mountains in the far south of Shaanxi province, far from Xi’an, on the borders of Sichuan and Gansu provinces. It has a relatively small population of about 200,000. Before the Tang dynasty, Lueyang was occupied mostly by minority Chinese who were defeated by the Han Chinese, and most were forced to migrate to other places. In the late seventeenth century, the Qing government forced people in central China, where the population was dense, to migrate to southern Shaanxi, including Lueyang. Lueyang has been rich in natural resources, especially minerals and forests. Even though its per capita arable land is much higher than in Shaanxi and China as a whole, Lueyang is relatively underdeveloped compared with other counties in Shaanxi, and the standard of living is low.”

“In multi-surname Lueyang county, by contrast, large family clans are ‘few and unimportant to village life’, the patriarchal system is weak, there are a large number of uxorilocal marriages, and there is a high rate of adoption. As a result, son preference in Lueyang appears to be weak, as evidenced by a sex ratio at birth of only 105 — which, as the authors point out, is ‘quite normal [by world standards] and very different from that in Sanyuan’ (Li et al. 1998: 4-6; cf. Li et al. 2000, 2003). In brief, one implication of this demographic research is that people in Lueyang appear to have learned, from the evidence of their own senses, that daughters, after all, are as good as sons. Perhaps one could say that if Chinese patriarchy, and all that goes with it, were to collapse in Lueyang county, it wouldn’t have too far to fall.”

“We have, nevertheless, spotted signs of change in some of the Han Chinese areas, such as in Meiwan Village of Hua County in Jiangxi, Lueyang County in Shanxi, and Yichang in Hubei, where different modes of post-marital residence are found.[…] Lianghekou, a town in the mountains of Lueyang County in Shaanxi, also has quite a high percentage of matrilocal residence, as 265 out of the 1124 households (24 percent) in the township have sons-in-law living with them.”

“In the northwest, Lueyang county in Shaanxi province ordered residents living in ground-floor housing to move to upper floors to avoid fast-moving floods.”

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