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6 unusual facts about Fujian


Chaoshan

It does, however, share similarities to the Minnan areas just north of Chaoshan in Fujian Province.

Chinese Pagoda

It is a stone carving of a Chinese pagoda, carved in Fujian, China and donated to the city by Wing Yip PLC, a local Chinese supermarket chain.

Dachi

Dachi, Fujian (大池镇), town in Xinluo District, Longyan, Fujian, China

Foster Stockwell

He is the son of Francis Olin and Esther Stockwell, two Methodist missionaries who went to Fuzhou, Fujian, in 1929 then to Chengdu, Sichuan, in 1939.

Phan Thanh Giản

His grandfather, Phan Thanh Tap was a native of Haicheng (near modern day Longhai, Fujian) in Zhangzhou prefectrure of Fujian province at the beginning of the 17th century due political sentiments against the ruling Qing government.

Sinonatrix percarinata

Type locality: Guadun (formerly spelled as Kuatun), Wuyishan City (former Chongan County) in NW Fujian, China.


4th Golden Eagle Awards

The 4th Golden Eagle Awards were held May 9, 1986, in Fuzhou, Fujian province.

Campaign to Suppress Bandits in Eastern China

Large scale offensive against bandits begun in the late August, after small scale probing assaults, and by January 1950, over fifty-four thousand bandits were annihilated, along with their major bases in Taihu, and the border region of Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi.

Chen Zhangliang

Chen, Zhangliang (born February 3, 1961, Fuqing, Fujian, P.R. China) graduated from the School of South-China Tropical Botany in 1983, and then was sent to study in the United States by the Chinese Government.

Emperor Jing of Han

Wu also sought assistance from the independent kingdoms of Donghai (modern Zhejiang) and Minyue (modern Fujian), and both kingdoms contributed forces.

Empress Quan Huijie

In 260, Sun Liang's elder half-brother and successor, Sun Xiu (who eliminated Sun Chen after ascending the throne in 258) further demoted Sun Liang to "Marquis of Houguan" and sent Sun Liang to his marquisate in Houguan County (侯官縣; around present-day Fuzhou, Fujian).

Ethnic Chinese in Belize

Recruitment of workers from China was facilitated by the colonial governor John Gardiner Austin, who had previously served as a labour broker in Xiamen, Fujian on China's southeast coast.

Geology of Fujian

The Zhejiang-Fujian-Guandong volcanic rocks are mostly rhyolite and dacite rich in potassium, from Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous.

Haicang

Haicang District (海沧区), in the municipal region of Xiamen, Fujian, China

Haicang Town (海沧镇), in Haicang District, Xiamen, Fujian, China

History of Sino-Japanese relations

Fried fish or meatballs (such as Satsuma age) are also traditionally from Southern China (mainly Zhejiang and Fujian).

Hoklo

The Hoklo people, a geographically widespread cultural-linguistic group originating in southeast China (Fujian province), also called Hokkien

Ji Shengde

In June 1999 he was removed from his post after being implicated in the Lai Changxing smuggling scandal centered on the Fujian port of Xiamen.

Jiang Wenhao

On September 6, 1989, Jiang Wenhao, the 23-year old PLAAF lieutenant of the 2nd wing of the 145th regiment of the 49th division flew a Shenyang J-6 numbered 40307 from Longxi (龙溪) airport, Zhangzhou, Fujian to Shangyi (尚义) airport in Kinmen.

Joseph-Anne-Marie de Moyriac de Mailla

When the Kangxi Emperor entrusted the Jesuit missionaries with the cartographical survey of his empire, the provinces of Henan, Zhejiang, and Fujian, and the Island of Formosa, fell to the lot of Mailla along with Jean-Baptiste Régis and Roman Hinderer.

Kumemura

According to traditional accounts, the community was founded in 1392 when a number of Chinese bureaucrats and craftsmen, under orders from the Ming Chinese Imperial government, traveled to Okinawa from Fujian and settled there.

Kwek Leng Beng

Kwek's father, the late Kwek Hong Png left Tongan, Fujian province, China as a penniless teenager for Singapore and subsequently founded the Hong Leong group there.

Lin Ben Yuan Family

The family were descended from Lin Ying-yin (林應寅), who immigrated, with his son Lin Ping-hou (林平侯), from Zhangzhou of Fujian to Xinzhuang of Taiwan in 1784.

Luo River

Luo River (Fujian) (洛江, Luojiang), river in Fujian, China; flows into Quanzhou Bay of Taiwan Strait

Min Nan

Many ethnic Chinese emigrants to the region were Hoklo from southern Fujian, and brought the language to what is now Burma (Myanmar), Indonesia (the former Dutch East Indies) and present day Malaysia and Singapore (formerly Malaya and the British Straits Settlements).

Nanjing Military Region

Its jurisdiction covers all military and armed police located in Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Shanghai.

Nanping–Fuzhou Railway

The Fujian Party Secretary Ye Fei agreed with the proposal and secured the approval of General Wang Zhen.

People's Government

Fujian People's Government (1933–1934), anti-Kuomintang government in the Fujian Province of the Republic of China

Philippine Hokkien

Starting from the early 19th century, Chinese migrants from Fujian province, specifically from Quanzhou eventually eclipsed those from Guangdong province, establishing Hokkien as the primary variety of Chinese spoken in the Philippines.

The Philippine Min Nan Language follows the 8 tones of Quanzhou because many of the Chinese Filipino how speak Min Nan Language in the Philippines there ancestors are form Quanzhou (Fujian) in China.

Pinus massoniana

Leaves are used to give special smoke flavor to a local black tea, such as Lapsang souchong of Fujian province.

Rebellion of the Seven States

The princes also requested help from the southern independent kingdoms of Donghai (modern Zhejiang) and Minyue (modern Fujian), and the powerful northern Xiongnu.

Ruijin

After being forced out of Jinggangshan in the late 1920s by the Kuomindang, the Communists fled here, taking advantage of Ruijin's relative isolation in the rugged mountains along Jiangxi's border with Fujian.

Selden Map of China

It shows a system of navigational routes emanating from a point off Fujian Province near the cities of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou, from which a principal route goes northeast towards Nagasaki and southwest towards Hoi An and then on to Pahang with another route heading past Penghu towards a point northwest of Manila.

Septwolves

The group also operates a number of enterprises in Fujian, including commercial property in Quanzhou worth over RMB100 million.

South China Sea

Major rivers that flow into the South China Sea include the Pearl, Min, Jiulong, Red, Mekong, Rajang, Pahang, Pampanga, and Pasig Rivers.

Su Sen-yong

He was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and spent his adolescent years in the city of Zhangzhou, Fujian, where he attended the Longxi middle and high schools.

Taiwanese identity

Of the 23 million people in Taiwan, most are descendants of immigrants from Fujian and identify themselves as Hoklo whilst 15% are descendants of Hakka from Guangdong (Canton) and also Fujian.

Tenfu Tea Museum

Tenfu Tea Museum, in Zhangzhou, Fujian, China, was constructed in 2000, and finished in 2002 and is the world's largest tea museum.

The Record of Tea

Cai Xiang was a native of Fujian; he was the first writer to report the tea spotting game of Jian'an (now Shuiji county in Fujian).

Township and Village Enterprises

More than half of TVE production in the 1980s occurred in Guandong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Shandong provinces, all of which border the Pacific Ocean.

Xiangtang–Putian Railway

The line is named after Xiangtang, a township south of Nanchang, which was originally slated to serve as a terminus, and Putian, on the coast of Fujian, at which the southern branch of the Xiangpu Railway terminates.

You Quan

In December 2012, You Quan was appointed the Communist Party Chief of coastal Fujian province, succeeding Sun Chunlan who was transferred to Tianjin municipality.

Zheng Jing

Invading Fujian once more, he led a force of 30,000 men to capture Haicheng as well as taking the provincial commander prisoner.


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