Kia-ting
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Definitions
- 1 Alternative form of Jiading. alt-of, alternative, obsolete
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 嘉定 (Jiādìng, literally “Commendable Peace”).
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