Jialing Jiang Fountainhead
Jialing may refer to: *Jialing River (嘉陵江), tributary of the Yangtze River, and one of the main rivers of Sichuan *Jialing District (嘉陵区), Nanchong, Sichuan *Jialing (迦陵), pen name of poet Chia-ying Yeh * Jialing, Shanxi (贾令镇), town in Qi County, Shanxi Qi County, also known by its Chinese name Qixian, is a county in the central part of Shanxi Province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Jinzhong and has a population of approximately 265,310. The county is on ...

Jialing River
The Jialing River, formerly known by numerous other names, is a major tributary of the Yangtze River in the Sichuan Basin. It is named after the Jialing Valley in Feng County, Shaanxi through which it flows. The Jialing River's most notable characteristic was formerly its pellucid green waters. It is also notable for its sinuous course in its lower reaches. From Zhangwang Miao (Temple of Zhangfei) in Langzhong to the mouth, the distance as the crow flies is . However the river itself travels . The most tortuous part of its course is between Nanchong and Wusheng County. Names The name Jialing did not come into general use until the Tang Dynasty.. Before that, it was generally known as the Ba, although it also appears as the Lang and Yu as well. In the 19th century, it was known by the Sichuanese as the Small or Little River, by comparison with the Jinsha and Yangtze. Geography The source of the Jialing, in name, is in the Jialin, which means " the tomb of Jia（嘉陵� ...
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Jialing District
Jialing () is a district of the city of Nanchong, Sichuan Province Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ..., China. Districts of Sichuan Nanchong {{Sichuan-geo-stub ...
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Chia-ying Yeh
Florence Chia-ying Yeh (born July 1924), also known as Ye Jiaying (), Jialing (), and by her married name Chia-ying Yeh Chao, is a Chinese-born Canadian poet and sinologist. She was a scholar of classical Chinese poetry. She taught for twenty years at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and has been Professor Emerita since her retirement in 1989. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. After retiring from UBC, she has been teaching at Nankai University in Tianjin where she is the founding Director of the Institute of Chinese Classical Culture. Early life and education Chia-ying Yeh was born in Beijing in 1924. Her family was from the prominent Manchu clan of Yehe Nara, originally of Tümed Mongol ethnicity. The famous Qing dynasty poet Nalan Xingde was from the same clan. Her grandfather was a Qing official, and her sinicized family shortened its surname to the Han Chinese Yeh after the fall of the Manchu Qing dynasty in 1911. Yeh began composing poetry at the a ...
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