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.
   • [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