Anhai

Anhai
Anhai
Chinese	安海あんかい
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Ānhǎi
Wade–Giles	An1-hai3
IPA	[án.xàɪ]
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	on1 hoi2
IPA	[ɔn˥.hɔj˧˥]
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ	Oaⁿ-hái

Anhai

安海あんかい镇
Anhai 安海あんかい镇
Town
	Surviving White Pagoda (center) of Shuixin Chan Temple (right), with the adjacent old residential neighborhood (left) demolished, to make way for new development (such as seen in the background)
	Anhai Location in Fujian
	Coordinates (Anhai town government): 24°43′00″N 118°28′34″E / 24.7166°N 118.4761°E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Fujian
Prefecture-level city	Quanzhou
County-level city	Jinjiang
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

Anhai^[a] is a town in southern Fujian province or Minnan, People's Republic of China. It is located in the far southern suburbs of the Quanzhou metropolitan area and is separated by Weitou Bay (simplified Chinese: 围头湾わん; traditional Chinese: 圍かこえ頭あたま灣わん; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ûi-thâu-oân) from Kinmen, which is controlled by the Republic of China on Taiwan. Administratively, Anhai is part of Jinjiang County-level City, which in its turn is subordinated to Quanzhou.

The highest point in the town's administrative area is Mount Língyuán (simplified Chinese: 灵源山やま; traditional Chinese: 靈れい源みなもと山さん; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lêng-goân-soaⁿ) at 305 metres (1,001 ft).

History

Anhai was known as Anping (Chinese: 安平あびら; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: An-pêng) during the Song dynasty. The famous Song-era Anping Bridge crosses a tidal estuary to the west of town, connecting Anhai with its western neighbor, the town of Shuitou, which administratively belongs in Nan'an. Shuixin Chan Temple is located by the eastern end of the bridge.

Anhai was an important port during the Ming and early Qing periods. The 19th-century researchers writing for the Hakluyt Society thought Anhai was the port of "Tansuso" visited by Martín de Rada, but later research identified Tansuso as Zhongzuosuo (Chinese: 中ちゅう左ひだり所しょ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tiong-chó-só͘), which is in modern Xiamen, some 40 km (25 mi) to the west.^[3] Anhai regained importance in the later 19th century when sand bars created by the Jin and Luo rivers blocked the principal harbor for Quanzhou; the city retained its size and importance to local trade but maritime commerce was redirected to Anhai.^[2]

Notes

^ Formerly romanized as Ganhai, Gan-hai,^{[citation needed]} Nganhai.^[2]

References

^ 厦门大学だいがく中国ちゅうごく语言文学ぶんがく研究所けんきゅうじょ汉语方言ほうげん研究けんきゅう室しつ, ed. (1982). 普通ふつう话闽南みなみ方言ほうげん词典 [Dictionary of Putonghua and Min Nan Dialect] (in Chinese). Fuzhou: Fujian People's Publishing House. ISBN 962-04-0228-6.
^ ^a ^b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911), "Chinchew" , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 6 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 231
^ Chen, Boyi (陳ちん博ひろし翼つばさ) (December 2009). 「Aytiur」(Aytim)地名ちめい釋しゃく證しょう：附ふ論ろん早期そうき海うみ澄きよし的てき對たい菲貿易ぼうえき [Identifying the place named "Aytiur" (Aytim), with a note on the early trade between Haicheng and Philippines] (PDF). 明代あきよ研究けんきゅう [Ming Studies] (13): 81–108. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-22.

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[3] Formerly romanized as Ganhai, Gan-hai,^{[citation needed]} Nganhai.^[2]

[1] 厦门大学だいがく中国ちゅうごく语言文学ぶんがく研究所けんきゅうじょ汉语方言ほうげん研究けんきゅう室しつ, ed. (1982). 普通ふつう话闽南みなみ方言ほうげん词典 [Dictionary of Putonghua and Min Nan Dialect] (in Chinese). Fuzhou: Fujian People's Publishing House. ISBN 962-04-0228-6.

[eb-2] Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911), "Chinchew" , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 6 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 231

[4] Chen, Boyi (陳ちん博ひろし翼つばさ) (December 2009). 「Aytiur」(Aytim)地名ちめい釋しゃく證しょう：附ふ論ろん早期そうき海うみ澄きよし的てき對たい菲貿易ぼうえき [Identifying the place named "Aytiur" (Aytim), with a note on the early trade between Haicheng and Philippines] (PDF). 明代あきよ研究けんきゅう [Ming Studies] (13): 81–108. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-22.

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