Ruyang
English
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Etymology
[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 汝陽／汝阳.
Proper noun
[edit]Ruyang
- A county of Luoyang, Henan, China.
- [1976, Daniel L. Overmyer, “The White Lotus Tradition”, in Folk Buddhist Religion: Dissenting Sects in Late Traditional China[1], number 83, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 84:
- A memorial of 1325 says that two Honan men, Chao Ch’ou-ssu and Kuo P’u-sa (Kuo the Bodhisattva), from Hsi-chou (modern Ju-yang county) preached heretical doctrines, saying, "The Buddha Maitreya should possess the world."]
- [1993, Hok-lam Chan, “Wang E (1190-1273)”, in Igor de Rachewiltz, Hok-lam Chan, Hsiao Ch’i-ch’ing, Peter W. Geier, May Wang, editors, In the Service of the Khan: Eminent Personalities of the Early Mongol-Yüan Period (1200-1300)[2], Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 301:
- In 1229, after having served for five years in the academy, Wang E was appointed district assistant in the Kuei-te administration and acting magistrate of the Ch’eng-fu county of Po-chou, both in Honan. A year later, he was promoted to be vice-prefect of Shen-chou, as well as acting magistrate of Ju-yang county in Ts’ai-chou (modern Ju-nan), Honan.]
- 2002, Brother Yun, The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 201:
- In October 1991, five months after my arrest, the PSB sent a special team of armed guards to take me and several other prisoners from the detention centre to the Da’an labour camp, which is located in Ruyang County in the north-west part of Henan Province.
- 2005 April 20, Edward Cody, “In China, Roots Of Anger Toward Japan Run Deep”, in The New York Times[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 August 2023[5]:
- Liu said that last week, he and his friends in Henan's Ruyang County helped gather nearly 10,000 signatures of people pledging to boycott Japanese products because of the new textbook approved in Tokyo.
Descendants
[edit]- Translingual: Ruyangosaurus