Definition of "Shaanxi"

The fact, therefore, that the Tae pings, when they raised the siege of Hwae king on the 1st September marched westwards by it into Shan se, shows that the Imperial forces were strong enough to prevent their descent by the Wei river.]

, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 176

Three pieces of paper which may date back to between 73 and 49 BC were recently found in Fufeng county, Shaanxi province.

1979 July, “2,000-year-old Paper”, in Eastern Horizon‎, volume XVIII, number 7, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, page 51

HUANG DI, the legendary Yellow Emperor to whom is attributed the founding of the Chinese nation about 2000 B.C., is said to have been buried on the loess plateau. There is a tomb in Shaanxi province’s Huangling county which has long been honored as his.

1979 August, Lan Cao, “Tomb of the Yellow Emperor”, in China Reconstructs‎, volume XXVIII, number 8, China Welfare Institute, page 64, column 1

Relevant new discoveries in China, not yet described, include polybranchiaspids and hanyangaspids which were recently (1981-82) recovered from an Early Silurian formation in western Hunan Province of south China, and in southern Shaanxi Province, west China.

1984, Pan Jiang (P'an Kiang), “The Phylogenetic Position of the Eugaleaspida in China”, in Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales‎, volume 107, page 311

"Archeologists drew almost a complete blank in their search of the inner tomb," the official New China News Agency said Saturday in a report of excavations at the tomb site, thought to be between 2,200 and 2,800 years old. The site is in Fengxiang County of Shaanxi Province, about 90 miles west of the ancient Yellow River capital of Xian.

1986 June 16, “CHINESE TOMB FOUND TO BE VICTIM OF GRAVE ROBBERS”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, B, page 10‎

Twenty one people were killed in China after the roof of a coal mine collapsed in Lijiagou, in the central province Shaanxi, state media reported on Sunday.

2019 January 13, “21 die in China coal mine collapse”, in EFE‎, archived from the original on 13 January 2019