Bao'an County
| Bao'an County 寶安縣, 宝安县 | |||||||||||||
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Bao'an District established | 1 January 1993 | ||||||||||||
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| Bao'an County | |
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Hanyu Pinyin | Xīn'ān Xiàn |
| Wade–Giles | Hsin1-an1 Hsien4 |
| Hakka | |
| Romanization | Sin1on1 Hien4 |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | San1 on1 jyun6 |
| Jyutping | Sān ōn yuhn |
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Bao'an County, formerly named Xin'an County, was a historical county in
History
During the Three Kingdoms, the later Bao'an County, along with Dongguan and Boluo counties, formed a single large district with the name Boluo (博羅; 博罗).[1]
In 331, the
In the 27th year of Hongwu Emperor's (1368–1399, founder of the Ming dynasty) reign, Hongwu appointed an officer with the title Shou-yu-suo (Chinese: 守御所; lit. 'Protector of the region') to protect the local population from robbers and vagabonds which increasingly infested the district.[1]
In 1573, the first year of the reign of
Under the Qing dynasty, Xin'an County was one of the fourteen districts under the department of Guangdong. During the Great Clearance (1661–1669), most of Xin'an County was affected by the coastal evacuation. However Xin'an ceased to be a separate administrative county by the 5th year of Kangxi (1666), and the areas not affected by the evacuation were temporarily absorbed into the adjoining Dongguan County until the lift of the ban in 1669.[3] From 1842 to 1898, 1055.61 km2 out of 3076 km2 of Xin'an County was ceded to the United Kingdom to form Hong Kong.[2]
Population
According to the 1819 edition of the Gazetteer of Xin'an County, the population of Xin'an County was about 18,000 people in 1642, just prior to the collapse of the Ming dynasty, and the total population was about 4,000 by 1672, three years after the reoccupation of the area at the end of the Great Clearance.[4]
Cession of Hong Kong
The area commonly referred to as Hong Kong was successively ceded or leased from the county to Britain in 1842, 1860 and 1898 under the Treaty of Nanking (Hong Kong Island), Convention of Peking (Kowloon), and Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory (New Territories).
Republic of China era
After the founding of the Republic of China in 1913, the name of Xin'an was changed back to Bao'an.[2]
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People's Republic of China era
In 1953,
In 1979, Bao'an County was renamed Shenzhen City after the name of its county town since 1953, and the southern part of Shenzhen became a
See also
References
Citations
- ^ a b Krone 1859.
- ^ a b c Brief History of Shenzhen Archived April 16, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Shenzhen Government official website.
- ^ ISSN 1991-7295.
- ISBN 9789622090439. Archived from the originalon 2021-05-02. Retrieved 2021-05-02.
- ^ 昔日边陲小镇深圳的历史渊源. people.com.cn. Archived from the original on 2018-10-15. Retrieved 2018-10-16.
Sources
- Mr. Krone (1859). A Notice of the Sanon District, Transactions, Vol. 6, pp. 71–105, Hong Kong (1859).
Further reading
- Ng, Peter Y. L. (1983). New Peace County. A Chinese Gazetteer of the Hong Kong Region. ISBN 9789622090439. Archived from the originalon 2021-05-02. Retrieved 2021-05-02.
- O'Donnell, Mary Ann (2001). "Becoming Hong Kong, razing Baoan, preserving Xin'An: An ethnographic account of urbanization in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone". . - Published online on 21 October 2010.
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