Huoshan

English

Alternative forms

• Huo-shan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 霍山 (Huòshān).

Proper noun

Huoshan

1. A county of Lu'an, Anhui, China.
   • 1959 June 15, Richard L. Walker, “Letters from the Communes”, in The New Leader‎^[1], volume XLII, number 24, →ISSN, →OCLC, Section Two, page 6:

     Hundreds and thousands of people joyfully beat gongs and drums to deliver their applications and resolutions to local Party committees and governments. The people of Manshui District, Huoshan County, walked 40 miles to deliver their resolutions to the local Party committees.

   • 1975 March, An Hung, “Domesticating Musk Deer”, in China Reconstructs‎^[2], volume XXIV, number 3, →OCLC, page 47:

     To meet the rising needs for this medicinal raw material, in 1958 workers at the Huoshan county medical supply and marketing department in Anhwei province set up a farm to domesticate the animal.

   • [1995 June, Yan Dejuan et al., “Ridge-Cultured Rice Integrated with Fish Farming in Trenches, Anhui Province”, in Kenneth T. MacKay, editor, Rice-Fish Culture in China‎^[3], Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 99:

     Experiments on wide-ridge rice-fish farming in Huo Shan County in 1987 indicated that the number of panicles per bunch, grains per panicle, and weight per thousand grains were higher in outside crop rows than in the rows at in the centre (Table 2).]

   • 2004, Janelle Plummer, “Introduction”, in Community Participation in China: Issues and Processes for Capacity Building‎^[4], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 17:

     The Piyuan Canal Rehabilitation Project presented in Chapter 9 is one component of the China—Netherlands Poverty Alleviation Project (CNPAP), being implemented in Huoshan County, Anhui Province.

   • 2014 October 9, Wu Nan, “Drink-driving bungle; Fake goods up in flames; Ex-official denies gambling”, in South China Morning Post‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 October 2014, China Insider‎^[6]:

     A man has been arrested in Huoshan county near Luan for drink-driving after he rang up the police by mistake and then challenged an officer to a fight, […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Huoshan.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 霍山 (zh) (Huòshān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huoshan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1337, column 3