Shanzhou
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See also: Shǎnzhōu
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 陝州／陕州 (Shǎnzhōu).
Proper noun
Shanzhou
- A district of Sanmenxia, Henan, China.
- 2018 January 23, “Bird's-eye view of underground dwellings in Central China”, in China Daily, archived from the original on 23 January 2018:
- Originating from the cave culture, the underground quadrangle dwellings, totaling more than 10,000, in the southern part of Shanzhou district, Sanmenxia city in Henan province, are recognized as a live fossil in the history of dwellings.
- 2022, Fang Wang, Shunyi Wang, Beijia Cheng, Wanjing Wang, “To inhabit, retain or abandon? Adaptive utilization of energy-efficient sunken buildings by rural households in Shanzhou, China”, in Energy and Buildings, volume 255, , →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-01-21:
- This paper focuses on the sunken courtyard, a typical vernacular architecture that utilizes underground space, carries out field investigation and questionnaire survey in villages of Shanzhou District, China.