Definition of "Wanquan"
Wanquan
proper noun
A district of Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China, formerly a county.
Quotations
According to the paintings, the tomb’s owner had been an unimportant official attending the emperor; previously, he had been a Duwei (officer in charge of a prefecture’s troops), Changshi (assistant prefect) and magistrate. His highest rank was Shishijie Huwuhuan Xiaowei (an official in charge of the affairs of Wuhuan, Xianbei and other nationalities living along the Great Wall). His office was situated in Ningcheng, or today’s Wanquan County, Hebei Province.
1997, Wenyuan Liu, “Cultural Relics of Great Wall”, in Tales of the Great Wall [长城的故事], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, pages 78–79
In his surveys of northern Hebei, Willem Grootaers found an average of 6.8 temples per village in Wanquan County and 4.5 per village in neighboring Xuanhua.
2005, Thomas David DuBois, The Sacred Village: Social Change and Religious Life in Rural North China, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, page 49