Longci

English

Tainan City Longci District Office

Alternative forms

• Lung-ch'i, Lungchi (Wade–Giles)
• Longqi (Hanyu Pinyin)

Etymology

From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 龍崎 (Lóngcí).

Proper noun

Longci

1. A district of Tainan, Taiwan.
   • 2005, 台灣鄉鎮之美 [Taiwan Town and Country]‎^[3], 遠流出版事業股份有現公司, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 148:

     The bamboo forests of Longci produce large amounts of bamboo shoots

   • 2018, Chih-Heng Lu, Chuen-Fa Ni, Chung-Pai Chang, Jiun-Yee Yen, Ray Y. Chuang, “Coherence Difference Analysis of Sentinel-1 SAR Interferogram to Identify Earthquake-Induced Disasters in Urban Areas”, in Remote Sensing‎^[4], →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4:

     The continuous GPS data show that the coseismic deformation in the Longci district (west side of Guanmiao district) had the largest vertical displacement of 100 mm and west horizontal displacement of 50 mm.

   • 2019 November 15, Chang Jung-hsiang, Elizabeth Hsu, “Tainan to give top model 12 products as wedding gifts”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[5], archived from the original on 15 November 2019:

     The firewood consists of bamboo charcoal produced in Tainan's Longci District, while the rice is championship quality from Houbi and Liujia districts.

   • 2020 February, 美印臺南 [Made in Tainan]‎^[6], number 50, page 01:

     Yung-Wang Chang, bamboo weaving artisan from Longci, recounts the stories of the once prosperous bamboo weaving industry and how he continues to create and pass on the skills.

   • 2020 February 10, Wu Chun-feng, Yan Hung-chun, William Hetherington, “Light festival draws 190,000 to Longci in its opening year”, in Taipei Times‎^[7], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 February 2020, Taiwan News, page 2‎^[8]:

     The event, which cost the special municipality NT$7 million (US$232,357), was aimed at boosting tourism in the region between Longci and Yanshuei (鹽水) townships over the Lunar New Year and Lantern Festival periods, the city said.

   • 2021 December 27, George Liao, “Two light festivals make nights in Taiwan’s Tainan more scenic”, in Taiwan News‎^[9], archived from the original on 2021-12-27, Travel & Cuisine‎^[10]:

     Two light festivals taking place in Tainan City’s Longci and Yanshuei districts are making nights in the city more scenic until Feb. 28 next year.

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

Translations

district in south Taiwan

• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 龍崎／龙崎 (Lêng-kiā)

  Mandarin: 龍崎／龙崎 (zh) (Lóngqí)