Definition of "Qingyuan"

Qingyuan¹

proper noun
1. A district of Baoding, Hebei, China.
  Quotations
  The same point of view was expounded in a folk ditty of Hopei Province: "Bound feet, bound feet, past the gate can't retreat."⁶6. Chia Shen 賈伸 states that this ditty originated in Ch’ing-yüan County 清苑 and cites it as evidence that footbinding was a restrictive device.]
  , New York: Bell Publishing Company, pages 30, 301

Qingyuan²

proper noun
1. A prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China.
  Quotations
  Lt. Col. G. B. Fisher, Three Years' Service in China (1863), p. 57, gives the following conversation between the emperor and the provincial judge of Kwangtung, referring to the campaign against rebels in Ch’ing-yüan Hsien (Kwangtung): "Question. Which are foremost in action, the regulars or the braves ? Answer. The braves, in general. .]
  , University of Washington Press, published 1967, page 655
  1945January […] 19. China: Japanese troops take Chingyuan, on the Canton to Hankow railway.]
  , DK, page 599, column 1
  “I booked my ticket this morning after hearing the news,” said Chen Ting, who was accompanied by her three-year-old son among about 40 people getting off a train in Hubei’s Xianning city.The 28-year-old had travelled from Qingyuan city in the southern province of Guangdong, where she runs a wholesale business.
  2020 March 24, Brenda Goh, Ryan Woo, Se Young Lee, Stella Qiu, Yawen Chen, Samuel Shen Liangping Gao, Roxanne Liu, Huizhong Wu, Min Zhang, Shivani Singh, “Locked-down no longer, China's Hubei begins return to normal”, in Michael Perry, Christian Schmollinger, Giles Elgood, editors, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 28 April 2022, World News‎