Xiangling

A handful of women did join the Tianzu hui; in Xiangling county five were commended, along with six men, for their extraordinary dedication. The men received a horizontal plaque inscribed with an auspicious saying whereas the women’s prize was a standing trophy.[…]But with the participation of female inspectors and the magistrate’s female kin, womanhood in Shanxi was divided into the educated and privileged who served as agents of the state on one side, and vile lage illiterate women who resisted their encroachment on the other.

2005, Dorothy Ko, “The Body Inside Out: The Practice of Fangtzu, 1900s–1930s”, in Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding (History; Asian Studies; Gender Studies), University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59

Let's take a glance at the other severely affected areas during AD 1695 Linfen earthquake. Two successive Supervisor of the County, Mr. Yun Dongsheng and Mr. Song Jijun had rebuilt the city walls of Xiangling (Fan, 1736). The collapsed Xiangling County government buildings has also been rebuilt; the Confucian Temple in Xiangling was damaged in the earthquake, the local supervisor united the gentries to raise silver for reconstruction (Lu, 1732).

2023 December, Ping Hao, “Several strong historical earthquakes during Ming and Qing Dynasties and their effects to local reconstruction at Southern Shanxi Province, North China: Insight from the Chinese literature”, in Natural Hazards Research, volume 3, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Dec 2024, page 604