Xinzheng

See also: xīnzhēng

English

新郑服务区
Xinzheng Service Area

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新鄭／新郑 (Xīnzhèng).

Pronunciation

• enPR: shĭnʹjǔngʹ

Proper noun

Xinzheng

1. A county-level city in Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
   • [1968 February 15, “Honan Masses Take Oaths Against Factionalism”, in Daily Report: Communist China, number 33, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengchow Honan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, page ddd 14:

     Chengchow Honan Provincial Service in Mandarin at 1030 GMT 14 February reported that on 10 February, over 150,000 proletarian revolutionaries, revolutionary masses and PLA commanders and fighters in Hsincheng County held an oath-taking rally on "striking down factionalism and strengthening party spirit" presided over by (Chang San), a member of the standing committee of the provincial revolutionary committee and chairman of the Kaifeng Special District revolutionary committee.]

   • [1972, Li-chuan Chang, Lin Yu-ching, “The Masses Support Archaeological Work”, in 中国新出土文物 [New Archaeological Finds in China: Discoveries During the Cultural Revolution]‎^[1], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 48:

     A commune member at Hsincheng County, Honan Province, presented two square bronze wine-vessels of 37 catties each, dated the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Periods (770-221 B.C.), which he came upon while irrigating the fields.]

   • 1987, Jessica Rawson, “The Eastern Zhou Period”, in Chinese Bronzes: Art and Ritual‎^[2], British Museum Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 47:

     Tight and dense motifs occur on bronzes excavated in 1923 from a tomb at Lijialou at Xinzheng Xian in southern Henan attributed to the small state of Zheng. [...]The special interest of the Xinzheng bronzes is their diversity.

   • 2015 May 26, Sascha Matuszak, “Cradle of civilisation”, in South China Morning Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-09-27‎^[4]:

     Xinzheng City, outside Zhengzhou, has built the Xuanyuan Temple and a museum dedicated to the Yellow Emperor, in honour of the time he spent at Xuanyuan Hill, to which he lent one of his names.

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 新鄭／新郑 (zh) (Xīnzhèng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xinzheng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3504, column 3