Ho-feng

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English

Map including Ho-feng (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 鶴峰 / 鹤峰 (Hèfēng), Wade–Giles romanization: Ho⁴-fêng¹.

Proper noun

Ho-feng

  1. Alternative form of Hefeng.
    • 1972, Colin P. Mackerras, The Rise of the Peking Opera 1770-1870 (Correspondence Respecting the Disturbances in China)‎, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 35:
      Ku Ts'ai, who was a friend of the famous dramatist K'ung Shang-jen (1648-1718),³ happened to be visiting Ho-feng in western Hupeh in 1703 and describes how the people there celebrated the feastday of Kuan-kung in one part of the city.
    • 1973, Union Research Service, volume 72, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 227:
      In Ho-feng County, the No. 2 Production Team under Chin-hsing Brigade of Yen-tzu Commune implemented conscientiously the distribution policy and enforced strictly all rules and regulations.
    • 1973, Edward Evans-Pritchard, China (including Tibet) Japan and Korea (Peoples of the Earth)‎, volume 13, Italy: Danbury Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 143:
      They live in T'u-chia and Miao Autonomous Chou in Hunan, Lai-feng, Ho-feng and Yien Counties in Hupeh province, south-east China.

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