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- proper noun an ancient name for
Beijing
Etymologies
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For China, if I include Song in the ancient / classical field, do I stop in 1129 when the Jin push the Song across the Yangtze, or do I take the classical China field to 1215, when the Mongols take Yanjing?
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Later when the Yan State conquered the Ji State, the city was then called Yanjing.
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As of today, the old people seemed to be exactly where they've been all month: sitting in twos or threes every 50 yards or so along every roadside, all over the city, wearing white Yanjing Beer polo shirts and red armbands.
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For 240 RMB, the vendors were letting fans carry a whole case of Yanjing beer off to their seats.
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The word for "swallow" is also pronounced "yan" in Chinese, and is symbolic because Yanjing was an ancient name for Beijing.
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Yanjing beer's efforts were also embarrassingly content-free.
Tom Doctoroff: Olympic Sponsors: For the Chinese, Winners and Losers 2008
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For 240 RMB, the vendors were letting fans carry a whole case of Yanjing beer off to their seats.
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Beijing Yanjing Brewery rose the maximum 10% while Bright Dairy & Food increased 4.1%.
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Mrs Williams led a separate delegation to the Yanjing Seminary for a discussion and presentation on Women's Theology.
Notes from China - Day by Day Highlights and Reflections, 8th-23rd October, 2006 2006
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With the likely prospect that 30 Houston games will be televised to Chinese audiences that could reach 500 million, the Rockets already have struck a million-dollar deal for advertising space at the Compaq Center with a Chinese brewery, Yanjing, whose bottles proclaim it "The official State Ale of China."
USATODAY.com - Rockets gain Chinese audience, big center, too 2002
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