A handful of women did join the Tianzu hui; in Xiangling county five were commended, along with six men, for their extraordinary dedication. The men received a horizontal plaque inscribed with an auspicious saying whereas the women’s prize was a standing trophy.[…]But with the participation of female inspectors and the magistrate’s female kin, womanhood in Shanxi was divided into the educated and privileged who served as agents of the state on one side, and vile lage illiterate women who resisted their encroachment on the other.
2009, Andrea Janku, “"Heaven-Sent Disasters" in Late Imperial China: The Scope of the State and Beyond”, in Christof Mauch, Christian Pfister, editors, Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses: Case Studies Toward a Global Environmental History[2], Lexington Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 245:
It was not accidental that a local gazetteer was compiled in Xiangling County immediately after the famine — and in most of the more than one hundred counties and districts of Shanxi.
2023 December, Ping Hao, “Several strong historical earthquakes during Ming and Qing Dynasties and their effects to local reconstruction at Southern Shanxi Province, North China: Insight from the Chinese literature”, in Natural Hazards Research[3], volume 3, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on December 24, 2024, page 604[4]:
Let's take a glance at the other severely affected areas during AD 1695 Linfen earthquake. Two successive Supervisor of the County, Mr. Yun Dongsheng and Mr. Song Jijun had rebuilt the city walls of Xiangling (Fan, 1736). The collapsed Xiangling County government buildings has also been rebuilt; the Confucian Temple in Xiangling was damaged in the earthquake, the local supervisor united the gentries to raise silver for reconstruction (Lu, 1732).
