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"ref": "2023 January 17, Jennifer Jett, Livia Liu, “China's first Lunar New Year without Covid restrictions fuels fears of a rural crisis”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 2023-01-17, World",
"text": "The frequent ceremonies, which are meant to release the souls of the dead from purgatory, come as China’s worst outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic spreads further into its rural, more vulnerable areas.\n“It has never been this many all at once,” said a 24-year-old visiting her home village in Taoyuan County, in the southern province of Hunan, for the Lunar New Year, China’s biggest holiday.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A county of Changde, in northern Hunan, China."
],
"links": [
[
"Changde",
"Changde#English"
],
[
"Hunan",
"Hunan#English"
],
[
"China",
"China#English"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Taoyüan"
},
{
"word": "T'ao-yuan"
},
{
"alt": "Wade–Giles",
"word": "T'ao-yüan"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Táoyuán",
"sense": "locations",
"word": "桃源"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Taoyuan"
],
"word": "Taoyuan"
}
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