# Putien
## English
### Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin for 莆田 (Pútián), Wade-Giles romanization: Pʻu²-tʻien².

### Proper noun

Putien
* Alternative form of Putian
** 1908, Homer Lea, The Vermilion Pencil‎, New York: McClure Company, page 132:The Tien Tu Hin was founded about 1674, in the Province of Fokien, in the Putien District of the Fuchin Prefecture.
** 1954, Leslie T. Lyall, A Biography of John Sung‎, Armour Publishing Pte Ltd, published 2004, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 4:Hinghwa in Putien County had always been a great stronghold of Buddhism, and the first challenge to the powers of darkness there was made in 1862.
** 1955, John C. Caldwell, Still the Rice Grows Green‎, Henry Regnery Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 177:But still two questions remain. Can Nationalist China take a bridgehead without American aid? And once taken, what happens next? Of what good will a small piece of land around Foochow, or Amoy, or Putien be to Free China?
** 1975 November 16, L. Chen, “Maoist showcase of big troubles”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XVI, number 45, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:Freedom-fighter Lin Chun-hwei reports his escape from the mainland at the Free China Relief Association. Lin escaped by sampan from Putien in Fukien province to one of the islets near Kinmen Oct. 27.
** 1978 August, Chia-shu Wang, “The Artcraft of Weaving”, in China Reconstructs‎, volume XXVII, number 8, Peking: China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38, column 3:Fukien bamboo ware attracts with clever combinations of natural and painted colors and is resistant to worms and mildew. The products from Putien county have such novel designs as the panda, tropical fish and patterns copied from paintings on silk excavated from the famous 2,000-year-old tomb at Mawangtui in Hunan province.
** 1980 January, Tieng Sang, “A 1,200 Year-Old Litchi Tree Flourishes in the People's Republic of China”, in Fruit Varieties Journal‎, volume 34, number 1, page 23:A litchi tree planted in the 8th century in Putien county, Fukien province, east China, is still luxuriant and produces fruit every year.
** 1996, Simon Winchester, The River at the Centre of the World‎, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 270:Statistics on the movement of umbrellas in Canton, vermicelli from Chinchew, animal tallow from Chinghai and coal dust from Putien were all treated with the same care and attention to detail as was vast 'Treasure, Imported and Exported'
** 2008, Shouyi Bai, “The Five Dynasties, the Song and the Yuan: the Later Period of Ascendancy of Chinese Feudalism”, in An Outline History of China, Revised Edition [中国通史纲要（修订本）]‎, 1st edition, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 278:A typical example was the Mulan Dyke in Xinghua and Putien of Fujian Province, a multipurpose project for water diversion, storage, irrigation, and drainage.
** 2009 August 31, 金門縣政府, “Kinmen's Matsu Pilgrimage Mission Takes Direct Course to Maizhou for Religious Interchange [金門媽祖朝聖團直航湄洲宗教交流（上）]”, in Kinmen Daily News‎, archived from the original on 29 August 2019, 英文新聞:On April 10 the "Meizhou Matsu Pilgrimage(1) Mission" organized by representatives from different sectors of Kinmen took a direct course to Meizhou, beginning a three-day-two-night religious exchange that included Putien and Quanzhou.
** 2009 September 7, 金門縣政府, “Kinmen's Matsu Pilgrimage Mission Takes Direct Course to Maizhou for Religious Interchange [金門媽祖朝聖團直航湄洲宗教交流（下）]”, in Kinmen Daily News‎, archived from the original on 29 August 2019, 輕鬆學英語‎:Immediately following the conclusion of the sacrificial(6) ceremony, the delegation from Kinmen boarded a chartered boat to Putien. In the evening Putien City Committee held a reception(7) for Kinmen and Putien representatives.
** 2012, “Lau Hong Siong”, in Leo Suryadinata, editor, Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: Biographical Dictionary‎, volume I, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 489, column 1:The inhabitants of Putien (Putian), commonly known as Hing Hua (Heng Hua), in the Province of Fujian, China, are prominent in the transport sector or businesses related to it such as spare parts shops in Southeast Asia. […] In 1934 Lau Hong Siong and his father fled their village in Putien County where a plague had broken out.
** 2014, An-min Huang, Jiang Jing-wen, “Spatial Disparity Analysis of County Agricultural Medicine Economics in Fujian Province”, in Studies on Ethno-Medicine‎, volume 8, number 3, →ISSN, →OCLC:[…] capital net income of rural residence data of Putien County and Putien City District in 2000 and 2001 are combined as the final data of Putien City District for the data continuity and unity […]
** 2020, Emma Wild-Wood, “The afterlife of Saint Canon Apolo (1933 onwards)”, in The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya: Religious Encounter and Social Change in the Great Lakes c.1865-1935‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 56:Vedanayagam S. Azariah, the first Indian Anglican Bishop, and Dr M. K. Yue of Putien hospital in Fukien Province, China are included with Kivebulaya because of their contribution to missionary work.
** c. 2020, “Wuqiu Township”, in Kinmen County Government‎, archived from the original on 10 August 2020:Located off the territorial waters from Putien County of Fujian Providence, Wuchiou Township consists of two villages, namely, Dachiou and Xiaochiou, with a total area of roughly 2.6 square kilometers. […] Most of the residents had immigrated from Putien and speak Xinghua dialect and Chinese.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Putien.