Hsia-p'u
See also: Hsiapu
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Mandarin 霞浦 (Xiápǔ) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsia²-pʻu³.
Proper noun
[edit]Hsia-p'u
- Alternative form of Xiapu
- 1967, Wolfram Eberhard, Guilt and Sin in Traditional China[1], University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58:
- Mu-lien was a pious Buddhist who attempted to save his mother from the punishments in hell, as we heard above (p. 25), and who, according to some traditions, eventually became Ti-tsang.⁷⁵ He, too, had several temples. In our survey, the oldest one was in Hsia-pʻu (Fukien), renamed with his name in 954, rebuilt in 972, and for the last time, in 1915. There was still another temple for him in Hsia-pʻu, but undated.
- 1968, Wolfram Eberhard, translated by Alide Eberhard, The Local Cultures of South and East China[2], Leiden: E. J. Brill, →OCLC, page 391:
- All his temples seem to be along rivers, while temples along the southeastern coast seem to be late (one in Hsia-p’u, Fukien, was built in 1866 (Hsia-p’u hsien-chih).
- 1973, The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia[3], numbers 9-12, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 33:
- A report on the practice of this custom in Hsia-p'u county in Fukien stated:
The daughters of poor families and miao-hsi are mostly pawned to others as slaves when they are 6 or 7 years old and an agreement is drawn up clearly stating that the time limit is 8 or 10 years and the price is more than 10 yüan or 4-5 yüan.
- 1990, Eduard B. Vermeer, Development and Decline of Fukien Province in the 17th and 18th Centuries[4], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 97:
- Thus the unendurable burden on the temples was lightened. For instance, the annual surtaxes of Buddhist temples' landholdings of Hsia-p'u county which had amounted to 515 taels in the late Ming dropped to 309 taels after Ch'ien-lung's edict, and to 229 taels soon afterwards.
- 1995, Annual Tropical Cyclone Report 1981[5], Joint Typhoon Warning Center, →OCLC, page 51:
- Nina had weakened to tropical depression strength when landfall was made at 221800Z, 30 nm (56 km) northwest of Hsia-p'u, China.
Translations
[edit]Xiapu — see Xiapu