Jianning

See also: jiānnìng and Jiànníng

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Borrowed from Mandarin 建寧建宁 (Jiànníng).

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Jianning

  1. A county of Sanming, Fujian, China.
    • 1994, Arsenia G. Cagauan, Roger S.V. Pullin, “Azolla in Aquaculture: Past, Present and Future”, in James F. Muir, Ronald J. Roberts, editors, Recent Advances in Aquaculture, volume V, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 121:
      The lotus—Azolla—fish farming system (Fig. 2.3) started in 1986 in Yeping village, Jianning county in Fujian, China.
  2. A former prefecture of Fujian, China; modern Jian'ou.
    • 2009, Eugenio Menegon, Ancestors, Virgins, & Friars: Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 75:
      The baojuan mentions Zhenghe 政和 county in Jianning prefecture as one of the first places to which the group spread in Fujian; see Baojuan chuji 1994, 358 (Sanzu xingjiao yinyou baojuan 三祖行腳因由寶卷, 33b).

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