Meaning of Xiangling | Babel Free

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A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.

historical

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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).”

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