Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word DAOCHENG

Definitions of DAOCHENG

1. A county in Garzê, Sichuan, China.

Examples of Using DAOCHENG in a Sentence

• The dynasty began in 479, when Xiao Daocheng forced the Emperor Shun of Liu Song (宋顺帝) into yielding the throne to him, ending Liu Song and starting Southern Qi, as its Emperor Gao.
• Xiao Ze was born in the Liu Song capital Jiankang in 440, when his father Xiao Daocheng was just 13 years old.
• Then Xiao Daocheng proposed the strategy of not sending an army to engage Liu Xiufan but rather defend the strong defensive posts in the outskirts of Jiankang and not actively engage Liu Xiufan, forcing him into a stalemate and causing him to run out of food supplies.
• Initially, after Xiao Daocheng seized the throne in 479, ending Liu Song and establishing Southern Qi (as its Emperor Gao), Xiao Zhaoye's father Xiao Zhangmao, as the oldest son of the crown prince Xiao Ze, was created the Prince of Nan Commandery.
• Xiao Daosheng died early, and Xiao Luan was raised by Xiao Daosheng's younger brother Xiao Daocheng, a Liu Song general.
• Shangri-La (Xianggelila) Town, formerly called Riwa, a town in Daocheng County, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan.
• State Council Special Allowance Experts (31): Ma Yushou, Ma Xiaogang, Mao Xuerong, Wang Jian, Wang Jianjun, Wang Chunying, Wen Shaodun, Deng Yong, Daga, Liu Shujie, Liu Hongxing, Liu Qingyuan, Xu Cunhe, Chi Dezhao, Li Lirong, Li Jie, Du Dezhi, Chen Gang, Zhang Caijun, Zhang Dengshan, Zhang Yongcheng, Zhou Qingping, Yu Hongxian, Gerili, Geng Paili, Tang Daocheng, Tie Shengnian, Wei Dengbang, etc.
• Upon hearing of Emperor Houfei's death, the general Shen Youzhi accused Xiao Daocheng of wanting to usurp the throne, and he started a rebellion from his Jing Province (荊州, modern central and western Hubei), although he then ill-advisedly became bogged down in his progress in sieging Yingcheng (郢城, in modern Wuhan, Hubei).
• In 474, when Xiao Daocheng's mansion was being ransacked by pillagers during the rebellion of Emperor Houfei's uncle Liu Xiufan (劉休範) the Prince of Guiyang, Xiao Zhangmao and his brother Xiao Ziliang (蕭子良) took Wang Baoming, Xiao Zhangmao's mother Pei Huizhao (裴惠昭), and Lady Yu, the wife of Xiao Zhangmao's uncle Xiao Ni and took refuge in the house of Wang Baoming's Wang Bing (王昺), and did not leave until Liu Xiufan's rebellion had been suppressed by Xiao Daocheng.

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