Jian'ou City
Jian'ou is a city in the northwestern part of Fujian Province, it is under the administration of Nanping Prefecture. Fuzhou and Jian'ou City were the first components of the establishment of Fujian Province, which were derived from the combination of two words Fuzhou and Jian'ou. Jian'ou known as a major rice-growing and bamboo production area. Jian'ou City located about 70 kilometers from Jianyang City.
Jian'ou was visited by Marco Polo in 1291 AD, on his journey from Hangzhou to Quanzhou. In his account Il Milione, composed seven years later to a scribe writing in Old French, the name Jianning-fu is romanised Quenlinfu. About Jian'ou, he said
"of considerable size, and contains three every handsome bridges, upwards of a hundred paces in length and eight paces in width. The men of the place are very handsome, and live in a state of luxurious ease. There is much raw silk produced here and it is manufactured into silk pieces of various sorts. Cottons are also woven of coloured threads, which are carried for sale to every part of the province of Mangi. The people employ themselves extensively, and export quantities of ginger and galangal.
I have been told, but did not myself see the animal, that there are found at this place a species of domestic fowls which have no feathers, their skins being clothed with black hair, resembling the fur of cats. Such a sight must be extraordinary. They lay eggs like other fowls, and they are good to eat. The multitude of tigers renders traveling through the country dangerous, unless a number of persons go in company."
Nanping Prefecture |
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District Name |
Yanping District |
City and County Name |
Guangze County - Jian'ou City - Jianyang City - Pucheng County - Shaowu City-Shunchang County-Songxi County - Wuyishan City - Zhenghe County |