Dengfeng
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Etymology edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 登封 (Dēngfēng).
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Proper noun edit
Dengfeng
- A county-level city in Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
- 2008 August 31, David Barboza, quoting Mei Shuaiyuan, “In the mountains, another big Chinese extravaganza”, in The Washington Post[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 December 2022[2]:
- "Dengfeng city has the oldest mountain in China, Mount Song," Mei said. "It is the cradle of Zen in China; it has Shaolin; it has a very profound culture. They wanted to promote it, combining Zen and Shaolin together, to help boost tourism."
Translations edit
county-level city
Further reading edit
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dengfeng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[3], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 996, column 2