Word: Jinsha Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 金沙 (Jīnshā, literally “golden sand”). Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪnˈʃɑ/ 1. A river in Qinghai and western Sichuan, China, the headwater of the Yangtze. Example: The Sanjiang Fold System is an Indosinian geosynclinal fold system, lying in western Yunnan and the Qamdo area of Tibet east of the Nujiang River and west of the Jinsha River. In eastern Tibet the Jinsha, Lancang and Nujiang Rivers turn suddenly to the south to form the famous Sanjiang (Three-River) Valley. Example: Except for the ten or more days when we rested in Zunyi Prefecture in northern Guizhou Province and the five days when we stopped in Huili County after we had crossed the Jinsha River, we spent all of our time marching, regardless of the weather, from Jiangxi to Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan and then to Xikang⁶⁶ provinces, and then on to Lifan¹⁰² and Songpang in Sichuan Province. 2. A culture in prehistoric China, named for its type site, Jinsha. Example: The gold stick unearthed in Sanxingdui Site and the gold crown band unearthed in Jinsha Site. Both of them have the combined designs of man heads, arrows, birds, and fish. They bear an almost same style, which shows the continuity of the Jinsha culture and the Sanxingdui culture. Example: As the climate at the time was warmer than today and the Chengdu Plain was forested, it is not unlikely that elephants thrived here. Phase II is equivalent to the late Shang to mid Western Zhou and marks the high point of Jinsha Culture. This is when we find beautiful bronzes, gold and jade, as well as some ivory. 3. An archaeological site in Qingyang district, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Example: But long before that, Parisians will have had ample chance to familiarize themselves with Chinese culture. From Oct. 14 to Jan. 28, the Hôtel de Ville,[…]showcases recent Bronze Age excavations in the Szechuan Province, in western China, including artifacts from the Jinsha site (1200-1000 B.C.) discovered in February 2001. Example: The continued discovery of Jinsha Site in 2001 after Sanxingdui might provide a persuasive reference to the myth of Sanxingdui civilization. 4. A county of Bijie, Guizhou, China. Example: Under the unifying arrangements of the Party committee the people’s procuracy of Chin-sha county took seven days’ time and handed over to the masses for debate the cases in which it had approved applications for arrest. Example: In handling the graft case involving Chen Guiliang [7115 6311 5328], director of the county hydroelectric power bureau, and other major graft cases, the procuratorate of Jinsha County showed no fear of powerful forces and difficulties, and swept aside all resistance, breaking through layer after layer of personal relationships to bare the facts relating to Chen Chiliang's graft and embezzlement of more than 100,000 yuan of drought relief funds,[…] 5. An urban township in Kinmen County, Taiwan. Example: Jinsha, located in the northeast of Kinmen Island, is subjected to powerful northeastern winds every monsoon season. Example: The two elementary-school students graduating this year, Yang Hao-lung (楊昊龍) and Chang Wei-shih (張煒世), started out from the school at 8:30am yesterday and jogged to Jinsha Township (金沙) Office before riding a tandem bicycle to the entrance of the ancient trail into Taiwu Mountain (太武山), bordered by the Tsai (蔡) family’s ancestral house.