# Jinning
## English
### Alternative forms

* Kinning (Postal Romanization)
* Chinning (Wade–Giles)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d͡ʒɪnˈnɪŋ/

### Etymology 1

From the Mandarin 金寧 (Jīnníng).

#### Proper noun

Jinning
* A rural township in Kinmen County, Taiwan.
** 2007, Phil Macdonald, “Strait Islands”, in Taiwan‎, 2nd edition (Travel), National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 200–202:On Kinmen’s northwest tip, in Jinning District, the Guningtou Battlefield was the scene of a 56-hour bloodbath that began when Communist troops landed on the shore in the early hours of October 24, 1949. […] Erected in 1812, the Memorial Arch to Ciou Liang-gong’s (Qiu Liang-gong) Mother, on Jyuguang (Juguang) Road in Jinhu District, to the east of Jinning, celebrates the virtuous mother of Ciou Liang-song (Qiu Liang-gong), a governor-general of Zhejiang province in mainland China who was a resident of Kinmen.
** 2018, Chien-wen Shen et al., “Big Data Visualization of the Alcohol Expenses in Taiwan”, in Data Mining and Big Data: Third International Conference, DMBD 2018‎, Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 219:Reaching NTD12,878 in average alcohol spending per capita in 2014, Jinning Township of Kinmen County is defined as outliers for out valuing the other regions; and is accommodated beyond graph boundary. The high alcohol spending in Jinning Township also vastly contributes to the majority of alcohol expenditure of Kinmen County. For examples, the total expenditure in Kinmen County is NTD369,011,239.91 in 2014; while the expenditure of Jinning Township, Kinmen County reaches NTD351,670,052. Moreover, the total expenditure of 2015 in Kinmen County decreased by NTD200 million NTD, which corresponds to the declining total expenditure in Jinning Township, Kinmen County.
** 2021, Wan-Yu Liu et al., “Impacts of Environmental Change on Place Attachment”, in Joseph S. Chen, editor, Advances in Hospitality and Leisure‎, volume 16, Emerald Publishing, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 108:Significant differences in place attachment were also founded among those coming from different townships. An ANOVA post hoc test - the Fisher's LSD test - reveals that the place attachment of residents in Jincheng Township and Jinning Township was significantly higher than that of residents in Jinhu Township and Jinsha Township.
** 2025 January 29, Wu Wen-jung, Wu Kuan-hsien, “Wind Lion Gods preserve Kinmen's history and folk culture”, in Focus Taiwan‎, archived from the original on January 29, 2025, Culture‎:According to the Kinmen County Tourism Department website, Wind Lion Gods, or "Wind Lion Masters" (風獅爺) in Chinese, are stone lions originally brought to Kinmen from Quanzhou and Zhangzhou in China to protect the group of islands from evil spirits, bad luck and natural disasters, including monsoon winds which are particularly fierce during the winter months. […] For those in the county, Chang recommended that visitors check out a chubby yellow wind lion in Jinning Township's Huxia Village that he found particularly cute.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Jinning.

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### Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 晉寧 / 晋宁 (Jìnníng).

#### Proper noun

Jinning
* A district of Kunming, Yunnan, China.
** [1973 July, Hsia Nai, “600,000 Years of Labor and Struggle (II) — Exhibition of Archaeological Finds in New China”, in China Reconstructs‎, volume XXII, number 7, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31, columns 1-2:The finds at Shihchaishan, near Chinning county in Yunnan province, deserve special mention. Between 1955 and 1960 some 40 tombs of the Kingdom of Tien of the Western Han period were unearthed there.]
** 2014 October 15, Austin Ramzy, “8 Killed in Clash Over Development in Southwestern China”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 November 2022, Sinosphere‎:The conflict was set off by efforts to build a logistics center for the distribution of manufactured goods in Jinning, a county under Kunming’s jurisdiction, the Kunming government said in a statement on Wednesday. […] Some residents in Jinning voiced doubt that the men trucked into the village were construction workers, […] .

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#### Further reading

* Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jinning”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1451, column 1