# Xiahe
## English
### Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 夏河 (Xiàhé).

#### Proper noun

Xiahe
* A county of Gannan prefecture, Gansu, China.
** [1951 January, Kung-liao Sa, “National Minorities Welcome the Goodwill Mission”, in China Pictorial‎, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16?:The lamas of Hsiaho County, Kansu Province, welcome the goodwill mission in their famous temple, Labrang Gomba, and hear the government's policy towards national minorities.]
** [1970 November 9 [1970 October 29], “Kansu Farmland Extension”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 218, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Lanchow Kansu Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Northwest Region, page H 1:A new upsurge in farmland development has taken shape in Hsiaho County, Kansu, in the mass movement of learning from Tachai in agriculture.]
** 2007, Charlene E. Makley, “Introduction”, in The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China‎, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1:Foreign tourists in the southwestern Gansu province town of Labrang, the seat of Xiahe county in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, moved through its streets like phantoms.
** 2014 December 17, Dan Levin, “Tibetan Man Dies After Self-Immolation in Protest of Chinese Rule”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 December 2014, Asia Pacific‎:The man, Sangye Khar, 33, self-immolated in the mountain town of Sangchu, known as Xiahe in Chinese, home to the Labrang Monastery, one of the most important sites in Tibetan Buddhism and a major tourist attraction.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Xiahe.

#### Further reading

* Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xiahe”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3500, column 3
* Xiahe, Hsia-ho, Hsiaho at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

### Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 下和.

#### Proper noun

Xiahe
* A village in Qinling, Lintong district, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
** 1999 [1998 June 26], “Remarks in a Roundtable Discussion With Xiahe Area Residents”, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton 1998‎, volume I, →OCLC, page 1063:Participant. My name is Yang Dongyi, and I am from Xiahe village. I grew up in this village. First I was a farmer, and now I rent a little company.
** 1999, Ruth Lor Malloy, China Guide: Be a Traveler, Not a Tourist!‎, 10th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 507:President Clinton visited the Terracotta Warriors, the Tang frescoes and the basement of the Shaanxi History Museum. He stayed at the Xi’an Hyatt Hotel. Near the Warriors, he visited Xiahe village with an annual per capita income of Y2601. Its life had been changed by tourism.
** 2003 December 26, Su Wei, “We Found the Terracotta Warriors!”, in Beijing Today‎, number 135, →ISSN, →OCLC, 焦点 [jiāodiǎn, Focus], page 8, column 1:The men were just digging a well in Xiyangzu, Xiahe Village, Lintong District, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province. “It was on March 29, 1974 when we were digging in the south west of our village, looking for water,” Yang Xinman, head of the team of workers, told Beijing Today. “After having dug four meters, we noticed some fragments of arms, legs and arrow heads made from pottery.”
** 2005, Bill Clinton, My Life‎, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 434:We began the trip at the ancient capital of Xi'an, where the Chinese put on an elaborate and beautiful welcoming ceremony. The next day we had the opportunity to walk among the rows of the famous terra-cotta warriors, and to have a roundtable discussion with Chinese citizens in the small village of Xiahe.
** 2007, 高洁, editor, 口语六大原则‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 105:Five kilometers east of the Lintong County seat, in the vicinity of Xiahe Village, is the tomb of Qin Shi Huang.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Xiahe.