Lukfung

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English

Etymology

An atonal romanization of Cantonese 陸豐陆丰 (luk6 fung1).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Lukfung

  1. Synonym of Lufeng
    • 1878, Report of the Basel German Evangelical Missionary Society for 1877, Mangalore: Basel Mission Press, page 69:
      We had not, at that time, Catechists enough to follow up the movement energetically. But the people themselves asked a Christian from Lukfung to teach them the Gospel, which he did as well as he was able.
    • 1895, E. J. Eitel, Europe in China: The History of Hongkong from the Beginning to the Year 1882, London: Luzac & Company, page 303:
      The capture, by the Taipings, of the Hoifung and Lukfung district cities (in the N.E. of Hongkong) in September, 1854, seriously interfered, for a time, with the market supplies of the Colony.
    • , Kelly & Walsh, page 208:
      The next so-called dialect up the coast is that of the Swatow and neighbouring districts, which is spoken by some millions, perhaps three, in one or other of its variations or dialects, such for example as the Hoi-fung, Luk-fung, etc.]
    • 1975, Rafael Maglioni, Archaeological Discovery in Eastern Kwangtung, →OCLC, page 25:
      In Hoifung we have a very clear example. That district is divided into two quite definite parts by a course of water which is formed by the lower part of the large river from Hoifung city and a canal which unites that river with another which forms the eastern boundary with the District of Lukfung.
    • 2005, 馮志明 [Fung Chi Ming], Reluctant Heroes: Rickshaw Pullers in Hong Kong and Canton, 1874-1954, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 83:
      Born into a peasant family in Lukfung, Li Laogong joined Peng in organizing peasant movements in his hometown and enrolled in Canton's Peasant Movement Institute, now a museum site, where early members of the CCP were trained.

References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Lukfung”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1095, column 2

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