Longxi

Proper noun

Longxi

1. A county of Dingxi, Gansu, China.
   • In early 1971 we received a box of fossils and a letter from a worker at an alcohol plant in Lunghsi county, Kansu province.[1973 November, Chen Chang, “Fossils Sent from Across the Land”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXII, number 11, Peking, →OCLC, page 43, column 3
   • Middle and primary schools in Lunghsi County, Fukien, have vigorously popularized part-time work and part-time study activities. Before liberation, Lunghsi County was very backward in education, but after liberation, particularly since the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Lunghsi has made...[1975 October 7 [1975 September 4], “Fukien County Schools Combine Study, Work Activity”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 320, United States Joint Publications Research Service...
2. (historical) A region in Gansu west of Mount Long.
   • On one occasion, or so legend has it, a ball fell from a dragon; when no tremor could be felt, scholars were mystified. But many days later came reports of an earthquake in Longxi (present-day Western Gansu Province) a thousand kilometres away.2015, David Whitehouse, “The Messengers”, in Journey to the Centre of the Earth: The Remarkable Voyage of Scientific Discovery into the Heart our World, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 60
3. (historical) A commandery of ancient China in the southern area of present-day Gansu.