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Houguan County (Chinese: 侯官縣; pinyin: Hóuguān-xiàn) is a former county in Fujian Province, China that is now mostly part of Minhou County, Fuzhou. Established during the Eastern Han dynasty , it was dissolved soon after the founding of the Republic of China in 1912.
The city was built as a house at 196 BC. Before that it was a village governed by Houguan County (Fuzhou). Because it is the start point of Min River, it acts as a trading transferring center between North Fujian, Jiangxi and Fuzhou. Also, it is the last stronghold of Fuzhou, the largest city in Fujian, and usually carefully guarded.
Dec 2, 2022 · Celebrities such as Lin Zexu, Yan Fu, and Shen Baozhen have emerged in large numbers, creating the spiritual feelings of advocating literature, studying, and serving the country in the bones of Houguan people." "Houguan people who migrated overseas took root in Malaysia.
Dec 24, 2023 · Reshape the cultural image of the ancient Houguan Dongye Port as one of the earliest departure ports of the Maritime Silk Road from China to Southeast Asia, actively integrate into the core area of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road and the construction of the Fujian Free Trade Zone, create an export-oriented cultural exchange and ...
- Early Life and Career
- Campaign to Suppress Opium
- Exile in Xinjiang
- Death and Legacy
- See Also
- References
- Further Reading
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Lin was born in Houguan (侯官; modern Fuzhou, Fujian Province) towards the end of the Qianlong Emperor's reign. His father, Lin Binri (林賓日), served as an official under the Qing government. He was the second son in the family. As a child, he was already "unusually brilliant". In 1811, he obtained the position of advanced Jinshi (進士) in the imperial e...
Soon after his arrival in Guangdong in the middle of 1839, Lin wrote a memorial to the "Ruler of England" in the form of an open letter published in Canton, urging England to end the opium trade. He argued that China was providing Britain with valuable commodities such as tea, porcelain, spices and silk, with Britain sending only "poison" in return...
Lin made significant preparations for war against the possible British invasion. The British sailed north to attack Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The governors of these two provinces failed to heed a warning from Lin, however, and were unprepared when the British easily landed and occupied Dinghai. Lin became a scapegoat for these losses due to court polit...
Lin died in 1850 while on the way to Guangxi Province, where the Qing government was sending him to help put down the Taiping Rebellion. Though he was originally blamed for causing the First Opium War, Lin's reputation was rehabilitated in the last years of the Qing dynasty, as efforts were made once more to eradicate opium production and trade. He...
Bibliography
1. Chang, Hsin-pao (1964). Commissioner Lin and the Opium War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2. de Bary, Wm Theodore; Lufrano, Richard (2000). Sources of Chinese Tradition: From 1600 Through the Twentieth Century. Vol. 2. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11271-0. 3. Ebrey, Patricia Buckley; Walthall, Anne; Palais, James B. (2006). East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History. Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 0-618-13384-4. 4. Hanes, William Travis; Sanello, Frank (2004)....
Brook, Timothy; Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi (2000). Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839–1952. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520222366.Hummel, Arthur W. Sr., ed. (1943). "Lin Tsê-hsü" . Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period. United States Government Printing Office.Peyrefitte, Alain (1992). The Immobile Empire. Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 9780394586540.Waley, Arthur (1968). The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804706117.Text of Lin's Letter to Queen Victoria (Alt)Example of Lin Zexu’s calligraphy at the Wayback Machine(archived December 14, 2007)Dec 2, 2022 · According to Song Jianxiao, Secretary of the Party Committee of Fujian Jiangxia University, the Houguan people who migrated overseas took root in Malaysia, and built a small town of "Houguan taste" - Sibu area for more than a hundred years, which has become a model for overseas Chinese to concentrate on development, reproduce the ...
Houyan is a station on Line 3 of the Dalian Metro in Liaoning Province, China. Houyan is situated 3½ km south of Houguan.
