Hsia-p'u

Hsiapu English thumb|Map including HSIA-P'U (Army Map Service AMS, 1954) Etymology From en cmn 霞浦 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Hsia²-pʻu³. Proper noun 1 1 en Xiapu. en 1967 w:Wolfram Eberhard Guilt and Sin in Traditional China https://archive.org/details/guiltsinintradit00eber/ w:University of California Press 67-12297 832966135 58 https://archive.org/details/guiltsinintradit00eber/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. en 1968 w:Wolfram Eberhard Alide Eberhard The Local Cultures of South and East China https://archive.org/details/localculturesofs0000eber/ Leiden w:E. J. Brill 909840590 391 https://archive.org/details/localculturesofs0000eber/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). en 1973 The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia https://books.google.com/books?id=dlwsAQAAIAAJ 9-12 0030-5340 909793677 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. en 1990 Eduard B. Vermeer Development and Decline of Fukien Province in the 17th and 18th Centuries https://books.google.com/books?id=iN35N4hBF3oC 90-04-09171-8 90-43720 1015072155 97 https://books.google.com/books?id=iN35N4hBF3oC&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97 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. en 1995 Annual Tropical Cyclone Report 1981 https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA399645/ w:Joint Typhoon Warning Center 51 https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA399645/page/n58/ 834240635 Tropical Storm Nina (1981) Nina had weakened to tropical depression strength when landfall was made at 221800Z, 30 nm (56 km) northwest of Hsia-p'u, China. Translations Xiapu Anagrams en ahipsu ashipu hupias