Jiyuan

Proper noun

Jiyuan

1. A sub-prefectural city of Henan, China.
   • The River Ch'in, he explains, rises in Shansi and after entering Honan at Chi-yüan continues its course through the two districts of Ho-nei and Wuchih until it joins the Tatan River and eventually empties itself into the Yellow River.[1891 January 2 [1890 November 29], “River Administration in Honan”, in North-China Herald, volume XLVI, number 1222, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 11, column 2
   • Since the 1970s, models of pottery winnowing-machines have been unearthed continually in Jiyuan and Luoyang, at the Henan province and in Ruicheng, at the Shanxi province. Among them, a winnowing-machine model unearthed in Sijiangou, Jiyuan could be traced back to the period of the Western Han...2009, F. Lisheng, T. Qingjun, “Crank-Connecting Rod Mechanism”, in International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 247