Hsia-p'u

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.

1967, Wolfram Eberhard, Guilt and Sin in Traditional China, University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58

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).

1968, Wolfram Eberhard, translated by Alide Eberhard, The Local Cultures of South and East China, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →OCLC, page 391

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.

1973, The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, numbers 9-12, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 33

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.

1990, Eduard B. Vermeer, Development and Decline of Fukien Province in the 17th and 18th Centuries, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 97