Yen-ling
English
Historical map including Yanling (labeled as YEN-LING 鄢陵) and surrounding region (AMS, 1954)
Etymology
From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 鄢陵 (Yen¹-ling²).
Proper noun
Yen-ling
- Alternative form of Yanling
- 1964, Han Fei Tzu, translated by Burton Watson, Han Fei Tzu - Basic Writings, Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 50:
- Long ago, when King Kung of Ch’u fought with Duke Li of Chin at Yen-ling, the Ch’u army was defeated and King Kung was wounded in the eye.
- 1965, Cho-yun Hsu, Ancient China in Transition An Analysis of Social Mobility, 722-222 B.C., Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 19:
- Before joining battle, the officers and warriors gathered to make divinations "before the spirits of the former rulers," as at the battle of Yen-ling between Chin and Ch'u in 575 B.C.
Further reading
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yenling”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2122, column 2
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