Quwo
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See also: Qūwò
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 曲沃 (Qūwò).
Proper noun
Quwo
- A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
- , volume 78, number 7, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, →OCLC, pages 129–130:
- It was a whole day's journey from I-ch'eng to Chü-wo which, in turn, is about 60 li east of Chiang Chou — one of the most important cities in southern Shansi and a center for curio-dealers. At this city, the Fêng River turns westward. While we were in Chü-wo, we decided to pay a visit to Chiang Chou to have a look at the various curio ships in that city.[...]Having gone to Chiang Chou from Chü-wo by the northern route through Hou-ma, we returned over a bypath through mountains in the south which has been gradually elevated from the Fêng River valley by loess deposit.[...]After we returned to Chü-wo, our next trip was to dash across Chung-t'iao-shan.]
- 1999 [1994], 邹衡 [Zou Heng], “The Early Jin State Capital Discovered: a Personal Account”, in Roderick Whitfield, Wang Tao, transl., Exploring China's Past: New Discoveries and Studies in Archaeology and Art, Saffron Books, Eastern Art Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 106:
- In 1979, while we were conducting our archaeological work in Yucheng and Quwo, Shanxi province, I noticed another historical record in the Kuodizhi (a comprehensive account of geography written in 641), which stated that "the ancient city of Tang was 20 li west of Yuchengxian in Jiangzhou."
- 2022 June 22, Xiaohua Zhang, “Believers Bid Farewell to 97-Y-O Christian Who Was Spiritual Mother of Many”, in China Christian Daily, archived from the original on 19 July 2022:
- More than 100 pastors, co-workers and representatives of believers of the Christian Church in Quwo County gathered to bid farewell to the female believer Liu Chang’e who was born on April 17, 1926 in Shizidao Village, Xiangyuan County, Shanxi Province and was called to heaven at 9:35 a.m. on June 9, 2022, at the age of 97.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Quwo.
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Further reading
- Quwo, Ch'u-wo, Chu-wo, Chuwo at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Quwo”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2559, column 2