Hsia-p'u

See also: Hsiapu

English

Map including HSIA-P'U (AMS, 1954)

Etymology

From Mandarin 霞浦 (Xiápǔ) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsia²-pʻu³.

Proper noun

Hsia-p'u

1. 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

Xiapu — see Xiapu

Anagrams

• ashipu, hupias