Lo-ning

English

Map including Lo-ning (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 洛寧／洛宁 (Luòníng), Wade–Giles romanization: Lo⁴-ning².

Proper noun

Lo-ning

1. Alternative form of Luoning
   • 1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China‎^[1], Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 111:

     The most recently recognized, and perhaps the earliest phase of the Yang-shao culture in the Chung-yüan region, is a complex of artifacts first known from the Li-chia-ts'un site of Hsi-hsiang in Shensi, on the southern side of the Tsinling Mountains on the upper Hanshui River, and since identified in a series of sites north of Tsin-ling in the Weishui Valley even the Huangho Valley in Honan, including the lower strata at Pei-shou-ling in Pao-chi and Yüan-chün-miao in Hua Hsien, and the sites at Lao-kuan-t'ai in Hua Hsien and on the banks of River Lo near Lo-ning, western Honan.

   • 1980, Papers on Far Eastern History‎^[2], numbers 21-24, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 22:

     He also spent time lecturing in neighbouring counties, such as the free school in Lo-ning 洛寧, Honan, later known as the Lo-hsi shu-yüan 洛西書院 or ' Academy West of the [River] Lo.'

   • 1984, Hsüan-chih Yang, “Western Suburbs”, in Yi-t'ung Wang, transl., A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Lo-yang‎^[3], Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 182:

     The Yao Mountain is sixty li north of the modern Lo-ning hsien 洛寧縣, Honan.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lo-ning.

Translations

Luoning — see Luoning

Anagrams

• longin'