Li-shui

Proper noun

1. Alternative form of Lishui.
   • In 1743, at the early age of 27, he became Prefect of Li-shui, about 50 miles south-east of Nanking. - 1970, Arthur Waley, “At Peking, 1736 to 1743”, in Yuan Mei: Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet, Stanford, California:...
   • In the fields near Li-shui there is an enormous camphor tree (illustration 1.) with a built-in niche containing incense cones and an earthenware dish for sacrifices. I also noticed a large number of prayer notes. -...
   • Skulls may haunt even without being so bitterly provoked. The country of Ch'u-cheu (in Chekiang province) is very mountainous. There, in the district of Li-shui, situated south of the peak of the Residence of the...