# Chingchuan
## English
### Etymology 1

From Mandarin 青川 (Qīngchuān) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻing¹-chʻuan¹.

#### Proper noun

Chingchuan
* Alternative form of Qingchuan (Sichuan, China)
** 1928 August, Outram Bangs, James L. Peters, “Birds Collected by Dr. Joseph F. Rock in Western Kansu and Eastern Tibet”, in Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy‎, volume LXVIII, number 7, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard College, →OCLC, page 333:An adult female of this rare woodpecker was taken at 6,000 feet in April 1925 near Chingchuan in the forests of northern Szechuan.
** 1975 March, “Biographical Sketches”, in Hierarchies of the People's Republic of China‎, Hong Kong: Union Research Institute, →OCLC, page 203:TAN K’un-jung (f) (但坤榮) Educated youth, Chiaochuang Commune, Chingchuan County, Szechuan; […]
** 1984, Issues & Studies‎, volume 20, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 45:At Kuanhu Commune in Chingchuan County, Szechwan, two of the production brigades keep no accounts at all while those of three others are in a mess.
** 2009 May 28, Xiaozhou Dai, Ji Shen, Wanhua Zhao, Yunzhi Jiao, Hong Jiang, “Phase report of medical treatment in Sichuan Province, China after the Wenchuan earthquake”, in Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine‎, volume 2, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-08‎:According to incomplete statistics, within 72 hours of the earthquake, Wenchuan, Lixian, Maoxian, Pingwu, and Chingchuan had treated 28,340 injured people relying on the local county, township, and village three-tier medical staff.
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### Etymology 2

From Mandarin 涇川／泾川 (Jīngchuān) Wade–Giles romanization: Ching¹-chʻuan¹.

#### Proper noun

Chingchuan
* Alternative form of Jingchuan (Gansu, China)
** 1933 February 28, “中原日程摘錄”, in The Young Companion [良友畫報]‎, number 74, →OCLC, page :Picture of the Liang You photographing group taken in a temple South of Chingchuan, Kansu. […] Carved images of the Tang Dynasty in a temple in Chingchuan, Kansu.
** 1965 June, Chien-wu Teng, “The Cave Temples of Chingyang”, in Eastern Horizon‎, volume IV, number 6, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 2:In the following year, he built a sister temple, the Southern Cave Temple, at the present-day Wangchiakou, Chingchuan country, a temple which is similar in structure and style to the former.
** 1966 June, Tingsen S. Wei, “The Origin of Russia According to Chinese Records”, in Chinese Culture: A Quarterly Review‎, volume VII, number 2, Taipei: Chinese Culture University Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32:Among the West Jung states, there was one nomadic state called Wu-shih 烏氏（史記，匈奴列傳）, of which the original state seat was the modern 烏氏城 Wu-shih Cheng (citadel) in the norht of Chingchuan Hsien in Kansu 甘肅涇川縣北.
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### Etymology 3

From Mandarin 清泉 (Qīngquán) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻing¹-chʻüan².

#### Proper noun

Chingchuan
* Alternative form of Qingquan (Hsinchu County, Taiwan)
** 1995, Wink Dulles, Robert Young Pelton, “Taiwan”, in Far East 1996/97‎, Redondo Beach, Cali.: Fielding Worldwide, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 430:Take the Kuokuang or Chunghsing long-distance bus to Chutung. You can either rent a car here or take bus 122 past Wufeng checkpoint to Chingchuan, then travel along the Talulin path to Kuanwu.
** 2007, Barry Martinson, “Aborigine World”, in Chingchuan Story‎, Gabriel Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 2:The truck climbed higher along the winding road of Wufeng Township. Around me the scenery became more and more fantastic — like Chinese scroll paintings of mountains fading away into mist. Everything was fresh and green. The truck curved, dipped a bit, and then plunged into a narrow mountain tunnel. I ducked my head just in time. After sloshing through the darkness for several minutes, we emerged from the tunnel into a wide and sun-dappled valley. There, bathed in light and dotting the cliffs like bright flowers in the distance, were the brick and bamboo dwellings of the village called Chingchuan.
** 2014 July 19, Dana Ter, “Snapshots from Chingchuan”, in Taipei Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-11-24, Features, page 12‎:The court overlooks the fogged-covered mountains of her hometown, an Atayal village called Chingchuan (清泉) which is near Hsinchu.
** 2021 January 3, Han Cheung, “Taiwan in Time: The house of Sanmao’s dreams”, in Taipei Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-01-02, Features, page 8‎:Writer Sanmao (三毛) didn’t spend much time in the mountain village of Chingchuan (清泉) in Wufeng Township (五峰), Hsinchu County, something about the place seemed to deeply impact her heart.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chingchuan.

### Further reading

* Chingchuan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.