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Jian'ou 建瓯市Kienow
County-level city
Jian'ou Railway Station
Nickname(s): 芝城, Root Craft City of China
Location of Jian'ou City within Nanping City
Jian'ouLocation in Fujian
Coordinates: 27°02′N 118°19′E / 27.033°N 118.317°E / 27.033; 118.317
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Fujian
Prefecture-level city	Nanping
Government
• CPC City Committee Secretary	Qiu Yi
Area
• Total	4,199 km (1,621 sq mi)
Population
• Total	434,451
• Density	100/km (270/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Local dialect	Northern Min: Jian'ou dialect
Website	www.jianou.gov.cn
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	建瓯
Traditional Chinese	建甌
Postal	Kienou
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jiàn'ōu Wade–Giles Chien⁴-ou¹ Northern Min Jian'ou Romanized Gṳ̿ing-é
Jianning
Simplified Chinese	建宁府
Traditional Chinese	建寧府
Literal meaning	Prefecture of Establishing Peace and/or Tranquility
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jiànníngfǔ Wade–Giles Chien-ning Fu

Jian'ou is a county-level city in Nanping in northern Fujian province, China. Under the name Jianning (Kienning), it was formerly the seat of its own prefecture and was the namesake of its province.

Jian'ou is within a major bamboo and rice-growing area on Jianxi Brook, about 70 kilometres (43 mi) south from Jianyang.

The Jian'ou dialect, a dialect of Northern Min, is spoken in Jian'ou.

History

The city was established in 196 under the name Jian'an – the era name of the reigning Emperor Xian of Han. Along with Fuzhou, they were the earliest-established Chinese territories in the area and thus their province bears their conjoined names: Fu & Jian. The city was once the capital of the Fujian region and also served as the capital of the empire of Yin in AD 943. In the Song dynasty, Jian'an became the seat of Jianning Prefecture (Jianning-fu).

Jian'ou was visited by Marco Polo in 1291 on his way from Hangzhou to Quanzhou. In his Travels, dictated seven years later to a scribe writing in Old French, the name Jianning-fu is romanised as Quenlinfu. The city is, he says,

"of considerable size, and contains three very handsome bridges, upwards of a hundred paces in length and eight paces in width. The men of the place are very handsome, and live in a state of luxurious ease. There is much raw silk produced here and it is manufactured into silk pieces of various sorts. Cottons are also woven of coloured threads, which are carried for sale to every part of the province of Mangi. The people employ themselves extensively, and export quantities of ginger and galangal. I have been told, but did not myself see the animal, that there are found at this place a species of domestic fowls which have no feathers, their skins being clothed with black hair, resembling the fur of cats. Such a sight must be extraordinary. They lay eggs like other fowls, and they are good to eat. The multitude of tigers renders traveling through the country dangerous, unless a number of persons go in company."

Under the Yuan dynasty, the name was changed from Jianning-Fu to Jianning-Lu. This was a result of an administrative restructuring: formerly, Jian'ou was the capital of the local fu, or prefecture. Jian'ou was made the capital of the local lu, a collection of prefectures still smaller than a province, and was renamed Jianning-Lu accordingly.

Administration

4 Subdistricts

• Ouning Street Office (瓯宁街道): Qilijie Village, Shuixi Village
• Zhishan Street Office (芝山街道): Xida Village, Haodong Village, Mawen Village
• Jian'an Street Office (建安街道): Dong'an Village, Dongmen Village, Qianjie Community
• Tongji Street Office (通济街道): Sanmen Village, Nanmen Village, Dongxi Village, Qiaonan Community, Nanmen Community, Taozhu Community

10 Towns

• Xudun (徐墩镇)
• Jiyang (吉阳镇)
• Fangdao (房道镇)
• Dongyou (东游镇)
• Xiaoqiao (小桥镇)
• Yushan (玉山镇)
• Nanya (南雅镇)
• Dikou (迪口镇)
• Xiaosong (小松镇)
• Dongfeng (东峰镇)

4 Townships

• Chuanshi (川石乡)
• Shunyang (顺阳乡)
• Shuiyuan (水源乡)
• Longcun (龙村乡)

Climate

Transportation

• Railway: Hengfeng–Nanping Railway, Hefei-Fuzhou High-Speed Railway
• Highway: G205, G25 Changchun-Shenzhen Expressway, G3 Beijing–Taipei Expressway
• Coach Station: Jian'ou Station

Specialty

• Fangcun Kompia (房村光饼)
• Xiaosong Bianrou (小松扁肉): originated from Hutou Village, Xiaosong Town
• Fumao Cellar Spirit (福矛窖酒)
• Zhuili chestnut (建瓯锥栗)
• Pressed salted duck (建瓯板鸭)

Notable people

• Li Qiumei

Scenic

• Dongyue Temple
• Jian'ou Confucian Temple
• Guangxiao Temple
• Tongxian Gate

See also

• List of administrative divisions of Fujian

Notes

1. Usually anglicised as Manji, the Chinese term Manzi (蛮子, meaning roughly Barbary) was the name north of the Yangzi for the lands south of it, lands now comprising the rump (or Southern) Song dynasty centred at Hangzhou. Enduringly based in the north, the Mongols completed their conquest of the rump Song in 1279, annexing it in its entirety and reducing Hangzhou to one provincial capital among many in their vast Yuan Empire. The Yuan Emperor of course was Polo's nominal host for nearly two decades. For more on the term, cf. Names of China.

References

1. "The historical evolution of Jian'ou city / 建瓯市建制沿革" (in Chinese). Official website of Jian'ou government. 2017-05-02. Archived from the original on 2018-07-06. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
2. Polo, Marco (1997), Marsden, William (ed.), Make Poluo Lvji, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions.
3. Polo, Marco (1997), Yang Zhijiu (ed.), Make Poluo Lvji, Beijing: Foreign Languages College Research Publishing, p. 18.
4. Polo, Marco, Travels of Marco Polo, ch. LXXIV, pp.199-200.
5. "An 800-year-old label may rewrite the history of a Java Sea shipwreck". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on 2018-07-20. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
6. 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Archived from the original on 5 September 2018. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
7. 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Archived from the original on 4 April 2023. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
8. "Li Qiumei - the sports star of Northern Min" (in Chinese). Nanping Sports Bureau. 2010-07-14. Archived from the original on 2016-11-26. Retrieved 2016-11-25.

External links

• Official website

• Cities in Fujian
• County-level divisions of Fujian
• Nanping