安源

Ānyuán

proper noun

Meanings

1 Anyuan (district of Pingxiang, Jiangxi)
2 historic coal-mining town

Characters

Examples

HSK 4

他出生在江西安源。

Tā chūshēng zài Jiāngxī Ānyuán.

He was born in Anyuan, Jiangxi.

HSK 6

安源在中国革命史上地位重要。

Ānyuán zài Zhōngguó gémìng shǐ shàng dìwèi zhòngyào.

Anyuan holds an important place in Chinese revolutionary history.

Tips

history

Anyuan is a district of Pingxiang, Jiangxi, famous for its coal mines and for the 1922 Anyuan Railway and Mines Workers' Strike led by Liu Shaoqi and Li Lisan - a founding event in Chinese Communist Party labor history. The oil painting 《毛主席去安源》 ('Chairman Mao Goes to Anyuan', 1967) became one of the most-printed images of the Cultural Revolution.

In Pop Culture

毛主席去安源 Máo Zhǔxí qù Ānyuán

Chairman Mao Goes to Anyuan

1967 oil painting by Liu Chunhua, printed ~900 million times

Stroke Order

安 ān

源 yuán