Yuan'an

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 遠安远安 (Yuǎn'ān).

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Yuan'an

  1. A county of Yichang, Hubei, China.
    • , volume 2, Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, →OCLC, page 192:
      7. The river Chü rises in Pao-k’ang 保康 county, Hupei, and runs through Yüan-an 遠安 county where it is joined by the Chang .]
    • 2005, Lihui Yang, Deming An, Jessica Anderson Turner, “LEIZU”, in Handbook of Chinese Mythology (Handbooks of World Mythology)‎, ABC-Clio, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 167:
      In Yuan'an County, Hubei Province, there is a Leizu temple (also named the Temple of the Sericulture Goddess). Since Leizu is said to have been born on March 15 in this county, a temple fair is held on every lunar March 15.
    • , →ISBN, →OCLC:
      Luyuan Hairy Points (Luyuan maojian)
      This tea comes from the area around the Luyuan Temple in Yuanan County, Hubei.
      ]
    • , archived from the original on 06 July 2022:
      An ancient temple site which dated back to Ming Dynasty was discovered in Yuanan County of central China’s Hubei Province on July 10, 2015.]
    • 2012, “The Old Soldier of Yuan'an”, in Record of the Listener: Selections of Chinese Supernatural Stories, Long River Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 128:
      There was a townsman from Yuan'an County in Xia Prefecture (modern Yichang in Hubei) who had boundless faith in Buddha and the immortals.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yuan'an.

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