Meaning of Shao-hsing | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“In the autumn they were reinforced, and moved northward and eastward to the circuit of Ningpo. The great city of Shao-hsing fell in October, and out missionaries there, Mr. B. and Mr. F., were compelled to retire⟳ upon Ningpo.”

“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.”

“Over-congestion and limited resources had forced many Shao-hsing and Ning-po people to earn⟳ their livings elsewhere, a phenomenon which deeply struck a scholar-official of Shanghai in the sixteenth century.”

“When I was commissioner in Chekiang East, there was a woman in Shao-hsing County who had an affair with the son of her late husband's sister.”

“After a tempestuous and undistinguished government career, a time during which close⟳ bonds of friendship formed between Lu Yu and the other two major poets of the late Sung, Fan Ch'eng-ta and Yang Wan-li, Lu Yu retired to spend⟳ his last⟳ two decades as an increasingly impoverished recluse on a farm at his ancestral village in Shao-hsing.”

“When Hsü shot and killed the governor, Chʻiu Chin was implicated. Authorities claimed that she was simultaneously planning an uprising in Shao-hsing.”

“So that's when we start⟳ to make⟳ menus. I say⟳, "At night, I'm dreaming menus. Like⟳ summer. First course: lime ceviche, try⟳ albacore." He says, "Second course: drunken chicken in Shao-hsing wine."”

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