Zhongmu
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See also: Zhōngmù
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 中牟 (Zhōngmù).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Zhongmu
- A county of Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
- 1966 [1954], Mao Tse-tung, On Protracted War, 3rd edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, published 1967, →OCLC, page 115:
- Kuantu was in the northeast of the present Chungmou County, Honan Province, and the scene of the battle between the armies of Tsao Tsao and Yuan Shao in A.D. 200.
- 2004, Charles Xingzhong Li, “Cao Cao”, in Christina A. Salowey, editor, The Ancient World, Prehistory-476 C.E. (Great Lives from History), volume 1, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 183:
- Cao Cao’s army, one fifth the size of Yuan Shao’s, resisted the enemy at Guandu (Kuantu, now the northwest of Zhongmu County, Henan Province).
- , →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on December 06, 2018, Asia Pacific:
- The rival villagers failed to settle their dispute, which quickly grew to involve thousands of people in Zhongmou County, located between the cities of Zhengzhou and Kaifeng, according to two accounts of the incident. […]
One person briefed about the clashes said that authorities may have been particularly alarmed after police stopped a 17-truck convoy carrying Hui men to the area from other counties and provinces as it passed through Qi County, near Zhongmou.]
- 2023 January 6, David Pierson, Joy Dong, Claire Fu, Olivia Wang, Qilai Shen, “China’s Covid Surge Threatens Villages as Lunar New Year Approaches”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-06:
- A local community health center in the county of Zhongmu in Henan, on Thursday. Such rural facilities are the first line of defense in a triage system to prevent overcrowding of county hospitals, but many are under pressure.
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Further reading
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Chungmow or Chung-mou”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 408, column 2
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhongmou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3565, column 2