Taiqian
English
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editFrom the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 台前.
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editTaiqian
- A county of Puyang, Henan, China.
- 2007 July 17, “Six killed in three China detonator blasts”, in Reuters[1], archived from the original on 18 August 2022, Latest Crisis[2]:
- Six people were killed and six injured in three detonator blast accidents in a central Chinese province, Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday.
The first accident happened on Sunday when villagers in Taiqian county, Henan province, were making detonators in a residential building.
- 2017 January 4, Liu Zhen, “Don’t pay over 60,000 yuan for a bride, say Chinese officials”, in South China Morning Post[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 January 2017, China[4]:
- Taiqian county in Henan province has issued guidelines saying grooms should pay no more than 60,000 yuan (HK$67,000) as a “bride price”, the Chinese tradition that a male partner offers money to his fiancée’s family to secure their marriage.
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