Biyang

See also: biyang, bīyǎng, bīyàng, and Bìyáng

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 泌陽 / 泌阳 (Bìyáng).

Proper noun

Biyang

1. A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.
   • [1968, “Ceramics: Han-Sung”, in Chinese Art from The Cloud Wampler and other Collections in the Everson Museum‎^[1], →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58:

     That Honan was the locus of manufacture for wares of the splashed black-glazed variety is suggested by the number of examples excavated in that province (for a reference to wares of this type excavated in Hsi-p’ing-hsien, Honan, see Sekai Tōji Zenshū, IX, 191; for a blue-glazed jar—similar in glaze and in the shape and disposition of its spots to the Palace Museum jar mentioned earlier—excavated at Pan-ch’iao, Mi-yang-hsien, Honan, see Wen Wu, 1954/9, Plate 59).]

   • [1978 February, Rewi Alley, “The Epic of Chumatien”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[2], volume XVII, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 5, 7:

     The village of Nia Seng in Piyang county is famous as the birth place of two famous generals of the Six Dynasties period (AD 222-589). But that county is perhaps more famous today for its luscious pears, perhaps China’s best. […]
     The town was saved. Then there was a militiaman, Liu Hsiao-mo, of the Yangcheng brigade in Shahotien of Piyang county. He took a small boat and res- cued many people.]

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

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 泌陽 / 泌阳 (zh) (Bìyáng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: पियांग (piyāṅga)

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Miyang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1217, column 3: “Sometimes written Piyang.”
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Biyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 440, column 3

Anagrams

• abying, baying, bignay