李冰

Lǐ Bīng

proper noun

Meanings

1 Li Bing (3rd century BC), Qin governor of Shu who built the Dujiangyan irrigation system

HSK 4

两千多年过去了，李冰修的都江堰现在还在使用。

Liǎngqiān duō nián guòqù le, Lǐ Bīng xiū de Dūjiāngyàn xiànzài hái zài shǐyòng.

More than two thousand years have passed, and the Dujiangyan that Li Bing built is still in use.

HSK 5

李冰是战国时期秦国的蜀郡太守。

Lǐ Bīng shì Zhànguó shíqī Qínguó de Shǔjùn tàishǒu.

Li Bing was the governor of Shu for the state of Qin in the Warring States period.

culture

At Dujiangyan he is honoured in the 二王庙, the Temple of the Two Kings, together with his son, whom folk belief turned into the god 二郎神.

mistakes

Not the film actress 李冰冰, whose name doubles the last character.

李 lǐ

冰 bīng