Li-shui

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See also: Lishui, Líshuǐ, and Lìshuǐ

English

Map including LI-SHUI (CHUCHOW) (AMS, 1961)

Etymology

From Mandarin 麗水丽水 Wade–Giles romanization: Li²-shui³.

Proper noun

Li-shui

  1. Alternative form of Lishui
    • 1970, Arthur Waley, “At Peking, 1736 to 1743”, in Yuan Mei: Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 30:
      In 1743, at the early age of 27, he became Prefect of Li-shui, about 50 miles south-east of Nanking.
    • 1970, Wolfram Eberhard, Studies in Chinese Folklore and Related Essays, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 22:
      In the fields near Li-shui there is an enormous camphor tree (illustration 1.) with a built-in niche containing incense cones and an earthenware dish for sacrifices. I also noticed a large number of prayer notes.
    • 2009, Terri Hardin, editor, Terrifying Tales: Stories of the Occult from Around the World, Fall River Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 344:
      Skulls may haunt even without being so bitterly provoked. The country of Ch'u-cheu (in Chekiang province) is very mountainous. There, in the district of Li-shui, situated south of the peak of the Residence of the Immortal Genies, farmers plowing and sowing often break up waste ground, even as far as halfway up the mountains.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Li-shui.

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