Shangcai

Proper noun

Shangcai

1. A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.
   • Shangtsai County has also applied additional fertilizer to its 170,000 mou of cotton fields. In general, the entire sorghum, corn, millet and cotton crop in Honan Province is growing well, even better than in previous years.[1973 August 17 [1973 August 14], “Honan Field Management”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 160, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic...
   • I’m an inn boy. I run a little wine shop⁶ here at Three Mile Stop beyond the Northern Pass in Shang-ts’ai County,* where everybody traveling north and south, wheelbarrow pushers, pole bearers, merchants, and what have you, come to have a drink and stay the night.[1978, George A. Hayden, “P'en-erh kuei (The Ghost of the Pot)”, in Crime and Punishment in Medieval Chinese Drama: Three Judge Pao Plays, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 85