Definition of "Fengshan"
Fengshan
proper noun
A county of Hechi, Guangxi, China
Quotations
Huang Deyi, 51, a deputy city mayor in Guangxi autonomous region, stood trial this week after he confessed to taking more than 5 million yuan (HK$6 million) in bribes over six years, the Nanguo Morning News reported.The fall of Huang Deyi, 51, followed residents’ complaints that he had spent 50 million yuan to have the giant fresco carved at the entry to Fengshan county, which he headed at the time, in the northwest of the scenic but impoverished region.
2015 November 29, Sidney Leng, “Chinese official blames drunkeness for bribe-taking amid scandal over giant phoenix mural that led to his fall”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 29 November 2015, Society
Alternative form of Fongshan (Taiwan)
Quotations
In April, 1868, a mob destroyed the Roman Catholic and (English) Protestant churches at Fengshan, in Formosa, the exciting cause being a report that the missionaries were administering a poisonous drug in secret doses to win Formosa converts.
1931, Hosea Ballou Morse, Harley Farnsworth MacNair, Far Eastern International Relations, Houghton Mifflin Company, page 275
Scheduled to be completed in three stages by 1978, the freeway will link Keelung on the north coast of Taiwan near Taipei with Fengshan near the seaport of Kaohsiung, in southwest Taiwan.[...]Construction will get under way in May next for the 55-kilometer (33-mile) section between Tainan and Fengshan and in January 1976 for still another section between Hsinchu and Taichung, in central Taiwan.
1973 August 12, “Cabinet okays budget for freeway”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 31, Taipei, page 1
WeiWuYing is a performing arts centre in the Fengshan District of Kaohsiung, in Taiwan.Completed in 2018 by Orgelbau Klais Bonn, the centre’s great instrument has 127 stops and 9,085 pipes. By all accounts, it is the largest pipe organ in Asia.
2020 June 16, Maddy Shaw Roberts, “Elgar’s ‘Nimrod’ played on Asia’s largest pipe organ is a life-affirming musical experience”, in Classic FM, archived from the original on 22 June 2020
Police are of course not immune to the disease, with over 400 of them coming down with COVID in Kaohsiung City. […] In addition to the police, Fengshan is currently the district with the largest number of confirmed cases in Kaohsiung.
2022 May 27, P. Hsu, “Rising Number of Kaohsiung Police Officers Infected 高雄警界確診攀升 鳳山分局逾60人染疫”, in Public Television Service
The “temple” refers to Whampoa Island in China’s Guangzhou Province, where the academy was founded, and “god” refers to the ROC Military Academy in Kaohsiung’s Fengshan District (鳳山). […] In 1950, it moved to Fengshan after Chengdu fell into the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government relocated to Taiwan.
2023 March 19, Nien-han Liao, “Whampoa academy arguments redundant”, in Taipei Times, archived from the original on 21 March 2023, Editorials, page 8