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Hinghwa
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English
Alternative forms
en Henghua Henghwa Hinghua Hing Hua Heng Hua Hinhwa
Etymology
From the en zh-postal -en 1915 March Index to the New Map of China (In English and Chinese). https://archive.org/details/mapofchinashan/ Second Shanghai Far Eastern Geographical Establishment 829435521 19 https://archive.org/details/mapofchinashan/page/19/ The romanisation adopted isthat used by the Chinese Post Office.Hinghwa zh 興化縣 Kiangsu zh 江蘇 32.56N 119.50E of either or both en cpx 興化 Hing-hua̍ or en nan-hbl 興化 Heng-hòa. en Xinghua.
Proper noun
en historical A prefecture in eastern Fujian province of imperial China, corresponding to the modern-day prefecture-level city of Putian.
en 1837 May Coast of China: the division of it into four portions ; brief description of the principal places on the southeastern, eastern, and northeastern portions. w:The Chinese Repository https://archive.org/details/chineserepositor00unse/ Canton VI 1 1554371 12–13 https://archive.org/details/chineserepositor00unse/page/13/ The Lamyet (or Nanjeih) islands are situated to the northeastward of Chinchew bay, the nearest distant about forty miles. The mainland, leaving its usual northeastern direction, runs out due east for above thirty miles, and the first of the Lamyet islands lies off the easternmost point of it. From hence there is an almost uninterrupted series of islands and islets, up to the mouth of the Yangtsze keäng. The Lamyet islands are opposite to the entrance of a deep bay, at the bottom of which is the city of Hinghwa foo, the capital of the most fertile portion of Fuhkeën. This bay, however, has not yet been visited by foreigners. The outermost of the Lamyet islands, named by Ross Ocksou, was found, when passed by the ships of Lord Amherst’s embassy, to be in lat .24° 59' 15" north, lon. 119° 34' 30" east. About thirty miles further to the northward, we pass between an island of peculiar form and the main. This island is named Haetan, the altar of the sea ; in shape it is semicircular, and of nearly equal breadth throughout. A few miles above this island we reach the mouth of the river Min.
en 2004 Hugh R. Clark Reinventing the Genealogy: Innovation in Kinship Practice in the Tenth to Eleventh Centuries Thomas H. C. Lee The New and the Multiple: Sung Senses of the Past https://books.google.com/books?id=WMhzF0OfadwC w:Chinese University Press 962-996-096-6 1014774002 9161571M 248 https://books.google.com/books?id=WMhzF0OfadwC&pg=PA248&lpg=PA248 Until the early Sung, P'u-t'ien was part of Ch'üan-chou prefecture; in 983 a new prefecture, Hsing-hua Commandery (Hsing-hua chün), was established with P'u-t'ien as the prefectural capital. on
en 2015 w:Winston Groom An Inspiration in a Grubby World The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight https://archive.org/details/aviatorseddieric0000groo_n3e7/ Washington, D.C. w:National Geographic 978-1-4262-1369-4 2013015171 827973791 255 https://archive.org/details/aviatorseddieric0000groo_n3e7/page/255/ Lindbergh of course volunteered to help and nearly lost the plane. He and two doctors landed at the city of Hinghwa with a bag of vital medicines, which the Chinese thought was food and swam out to one doctor’s sampan, swamped it, and then swam to the plane and began to clamber aboard, tipping the wings dangerously, until Lindbergh took out his revolver and fired into the air, driving them away.
en 2017 Christianity in China Wu Xiaoxin 1315493993 Grace McClurg Carson taught at the Methodist mission in Hinghwa from 1910 to 1926.
Puxian Min a linguistic grouping of Min Chinese primarily spoken in and around Putian, Fujian, China
en 1924 Annual Report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the Year 1923 https://archive.org/details/annualreportofbo0000meth_d9m4/ 6187806 66 https://archive.org/details/annualreportofbo0000meth_d9m4/page/66/ HANKONG DISTRICTArea: Includes the market towns of Gangkau and Hankong, and surrounding villages.Location: On the coast plain east of Hinghwa City. Two-third of the district is mountainous.Population: 350,000. Methodist responsibility, 250,000. Hinghwa is spoken.
en 1938 Frank T. Cartwright Tuan Hoover of Borneo https://archive.org/details/tuanhooverofborn0000unse/ w:Abingdon Press 381324 105 https://archive.org/details/tuanhooverofborn0000unse/page/105/ Meantime the homekeeping wife-schoolteacher was learning the difference between the seven-toned Foochow dialect, the more nasal Hinghwa, and the still more intricate Hokkien.
en 1944 Arthur J. Moore Christ After Chaos https://archive.org/details/christafterchaos0000moor/ New York Board of Missions and Church Extension The Methodist Church 642327 30 https://archive.org/details/christafterchaos0000moor/page/30/ Hinghwa Conference is also in Fukien province, among persons using the Hinghwa dialect, centering largely in the cities of Hinghwa and Sienyu.
en 1947 Richard Terrill Baker Ten Thousand Years https://archive.org/details/tenthousandyears0000bake/ New York Board of Missions and Church Extension The Methodist Church 123155509 69 https://archive.org/details/tenthousandyears0000bake/page/69/ Moving down the coast to the southeast, the Methodists, as early as 1864, penetrated the Hinghwa-speaking area of Fukien’s coastal plain.
en 1948 Walter N. Lacy A Hundred Years of China Methodism https://archive.org/details/hundredyearsofch0000lacy_q7e2/ Abingdon-Cokesbury Press 251163056 186 https://archive.org/details/hundredyearsofch0000lacy_q7e2/page/186/ In Foochow one of the presses and a font of Romanized type were transferred to Hinghwa, “for greater convenience in publishing literature in the Hinghwa dialect, as no one trained to read that proof could be found in Foochow,” and the day of special delivery and airmail had not yet arrived.
en 1954 Leslie Theodore Lyall Leslie T. Lyall A Biography of John Sung https://archive.org/details/biographyofjohns00lyal/ Armour Publishing Pte Ltd 2004 981-4138-19-3 56816804 155 https://archive.org/details/biographyofjohns00lyal/page/155/ Dr. Sung at first spoke poor Mandarin and his enunciation even of his own Hinghwa dialect was not very clear.
en 1957 Lands of Witness and Decision https://archive.org/details/landsofwitnessde0000meth/ New York City Board of Missions of The Methodist Church 57-12028 781979 53 https://archive.org/details/landsofwitnessde0000meth/page/53/ The Methodist Church has established two clinics: one down the river at a Hinghwa-speaking settlement, Sungei Teku ; and the other at Nanga Mujong up the river in the Kapit District where most of the Iban Methodist Christians live.
en 1971 Paul Sing-Hoh Hang My Christian Testimony https://archive.org/details/mychristiantesti0000sing/ 32867793 17 https://archive.org/details/mychristiantesti0000sing/page/17/ Since 1948, his wife, Mrs. Kao Tai Ching-Ying, was keenly interested in the Hinghwa-speaking M.Y.F. and was instrumental in forming the local M.Y.F. in 1950.
en historical A previous county and present-day county-level city in Taizhou, Jiangsu
Synonyms
en Xinghua
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