The Cultural Hub of Southeast China: A Digital Reconstruction of Putian (Xinghua) Chronicles
Geographical coordinates: Xinghua Prefecture (Putian), Mulanpei, Hanjiang, Jiangkou, Guanghua Temple, Ninghai Bridge Can you imagine one county producing 2,482 imperial scholars? Not 248. Not 24,800. Two thousand, four hundred and eighty-two. That number puts Putian in the top tier of scholar-producing regions in all of Chinese history. Even crazier? The county covers only 1,973 square kilometers — about the size of a small city. This is Putian. Known historically as Xinghua. A place that earned the nickname “Zou and Lu of the Seacoast” — comparing itself to the hometowns of Confucius and Mencius. ...