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Teochew is a dialect of Min Nan.
Bake at 240°C (thermostat 8), and lower 5 min. later to 200°C (thermostat 6-7); let bake 10 more min. Keep an eye on the baking!
Add the flour and baking powder, then the butter and leftover milk; let stand for 15 min.
Far min hjelpte meg med leksene.
Dinner's ready, darling! – Be there in a min!
The more and the minne
[…] and faith I've done that same and found me min; […]
He's gotta be at least 60, min!
The Lamyet (or Nanjeih) islands are situated to the northeastward of Chinchew bay, the nearest distant about forty miles. The mainland, leaving its usual northeastern direction, runs out due east for above thirty miles, and the first of the Lamyet islands lies off the easternmost point of it. From hence there is an almost uninterrupted series of islands and islets, up to the mouth of the Yangtsze keäng. The Lamyet islands are opposite to the entrance of a deep bay, at the bottom of which is the city of Hinghwa foo, the capital of the most fertile portion of Fuhkeën. This bay, however, has not yet been visited by foreigners. The outermost of the Lamyet islands, named by Ross Ocksou, was found, when passed by the ships of Lord Amherst’s embassy, to be in lat .24° 59' 15" north, lon. 119° 34' 30" east. About thirty miles further to the northward, we pass between an island of peculiar form and the main. This island is named Haetan, the altar of the sea ; in shape it is semicircular, and of nearly equal breadth throughout. A few miles above this island we reach the mouth of the river Min.
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We traveled down the Min River from Nanping in a small sampan, flying the American flag for protection against bandits and soldiers. Those were the days when the Stars and Stripes still afforded some protection.
Matsu is about 200 miles north of Quemoy and flanks the mouth of the Min River. The mainland city of Foochow, famed for its lacquer craftsmanship, is a short distance up the Min.
We left Foochow after an early breakfast, and after half an hour on a boat ferry that took us from the city environs across the Min River and up a tributary, we landed in Minhou county, and took the highway that led across Yungtai county to Tehua.
Foochow was a picturesque city of considerable size and consequence before its designation in 1842 as one of the five original treaty ports. It was the headquarters of Manchu civil and military offcialdom in Fukien Province. Its location on the Min River, which flowed through a major tea-producing district, and its excellent harbor gave the city additional importance as a port.
In a small store in Tingjiang, across the Min River in Lianjiang County, questions about smuggling people into America prompted a lively discussion.
[…]. They were started by people from Min [Fujian]. Now as a result, the profit is similar to that of Min.”
In the early 1900s, because of the joining of regional cuisines of Zhe (Zhejiang), Min (Fujian), Xiang (Hunan) and Hui (Anhui) Cuisines, […]
In 1685 (kangxi 24), the provincial governor (xunfu 巡撫) of Jiangsu "personally went to the seaports to inspect the local circumstances and suggested to fix (the following) regulations: trading certificates are granted for sailing overseas; merchants from Min province (Fujian) are called "birth ships" (wuchuan 烏船);[…]
Long before the Conqueſt of China by the Tartars in their laſt invaſion, and the depoſing of the Emperour of China, (viz. when the Soveraignty of the Kingdom was in the Family of Ciu) China was called by the Chineſes Min, which ſignifies Perſpicuty, or Brightneſs. Afterwards they added to the word Min the ſyllable Ta, and called it then Tamin, or (as ſome write) Taming, which ſignifies The Kingdom of great Brightneſs. For above 300 years this Kingdom bore the name of Tai-juen, and at this time it is called by the Tartars, who poſſeſs this Kingdom under the Great Cham, Taicing.
The founder of the Min dynasty (A. D. 1368) declares of him, "He descended repeatedly from heaven to be the imperial teacher; generation after generation he ceased not, but men knew him not. History, which has recorded every thing which could be of interest about Confucius, even to the minutest details of his daily life, failed to hand down the daily acts of a man who, for character and grasp of thought, far transcends his contemporary, Confucius."
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