Meanings
- alternativeobsoleteAlternative form of Jiading.
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Bricks of city walls will often be found to contain dates. I saw numbers of them recently immured in the city wall of Kia-ting near Shanghai ; they were marked with the reign of Kia-tsing of the Ming dynasty (A.D. 1522 to 1567) and looked very well preserved. Since that city had been destroyed and burned by the Japanese in 1552, as I learned from a memorial tablet in one of the Kia-ting temples, the mark on these bricks suggest the date of one of the several renovations the wall has undergone in the course of centuries.
1887, F. Hirth, “Ancient Porcelain: A Study in Chinese Mediæval Industry and Trade”, in Journal of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, volume 22, →OCLC, page 155
Origin
- Mandarin嘉定
- EnglishKia-ting
Borrowed from Mandarin 嘉定 (Jiādìng, literally “Commendable Peace”).
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