Every child of Pʻu-tʻien knows that the fertile plain, girdled by mountains and facing the Yellow Sea, was once a great salt marsh, for Pʻu-tʻien means "Salt Grass Fields." It was Lady Fourth Daughter, a Chinese girl of the Sung Dynasty, a thousand years ago, who dreamed of building a dam to hold back the salt tides, and to send the fresh life-giving waters of the River of Playful Fairies into a system of canals threading the plain. Thus would the salt marshes be redeemed into rice fields for the feeding of countless villages. The fair, high-walled county seat came to be named Hing-hwa, "Transformed to Flourishing," because of her gift of Fertile Fields.
Being a child of Pʻu-tʻien myself I, too, have always known the lovely legends about Lady Fourth Daughter of the family of Ching.
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According to the Pa-min T’ung-chih, Cheng Lu’s study was located at Hsing-haufu (P’u-t’ien hsien, Fukien) as earily^([sic – meaning early]) as the Liang and Ch'en periods, and the T’ang Shih-tao Chih ("A T’ang Topography of the Ten Districts") tells us that many "robe and cap" gentry families gathered at Ch’üan-choufu (Chin-chiang hsien, Fukien) when the Chin capital was removed to the south.
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Mu-lien was a pious Buddhist who attempted to save his mother from the punishments in hell, as we heard above (p. 25), and who, according to some traditions, eventually became Ti-tsang.⁷⁵ He, too, had several temples. In our survey, the oldest one was in Hsia-p'u (Fukien), renamed with his name in 954, rebuilt in 972, and for the last time, in 1915. There was still another temple for him in Hsia-p'u, but undated. Otherwise, we have only a 1608 temple for him in P'u-t'ien (Fukien) and an undated temple in Hsiang-shan (Kuangtung).
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Lin Chao-en was born in 1517 in P'u-t'ien, Fukien, the second son of his father Wan-jen.¹ P'u-t'ien was known for the success of its sons in the government examinations.
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