Meaning of Hsia-p'u | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“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.”

“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).”

“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.”

“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.”

“Nina had weakened to tropical depression strength when landfall was made at 221800Z, 30 nm (56 km) northwest of Hsia-p'u, China.”

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