(90.) Case Brought on Appeal from
Kiangsi 16th Day 3rd Month, 6th Year of the Chinese Republic, cited in id.
Distribution: China: Hainan, Kwangtung,
Kiangsi, Chekiang, Fukien, Yunnan; Taiwan; Thailand; Laos; Myanmar; Malaysia; India; Vietnam: Yen Bay [probably = current Yen Bai Province], Phu Lang Thoung [= Phu Lang Thuong, part of Bac Giang Province] (Giordani Soika, 1982 (1981)).
The remainder, I took to our dining room to place in the alabaster porcelain dishes that Father had collected from his native
Kiangsi province.
(8) With widespread reforms encouraging a more meritocratic administrative beaucracy, this scholar gentry, overseers of large country estates, residents of the capital of Kaifeng, formed a social elite with the time and means for cultivating discerning aesthetic tastes, including contests for the best tea bowl for frothed white tea, the Hare's Fur bowls of the communal kilns of the farmer-potters of distant
Kiangsi province being considered the most beautiful and appropriate.
What food did they eat?" This seems to suggest that the origin of the Miao is east of Guizhou where they now are, possibly near Lake Tungting (in present-day Hunan province) and Lake Poyang (in northwestern
Kiangsi), for it would probably be around these big lakes that the "waves billowed up to the blue sky" and where the shore and land around was "as flat as a bamboo mat." It is further said that the ancient "Five Pairs of Parents" of the Miao "lived in the east along a sea shore" in China and later moved west "because of poverty and overcrowding" (Bender, op.cit., p.
The evidence is based on the writings of participants and later imperial histories Table 3 China's population by province, 1819-1953 (million) 1819 1893 1953 Provinces most affected by 153.9 101.8 145.3 Taiping rebellion (a) Provinces affected by Muslim 41.3 26.8 43.1 rebellions (b) Ten Other Provinces of China 175.6 240.9 338.6 Proper (c) Three Manchurian Provinces (d) 2.0 5.4 41.7 Sinkiang, Mongolia, Tibet, 6.4 11.8 14.0 Ningsia, Tsinghai Total 379.4 386.7 582.7 (a.) Anhwei, Chekiang, Hupei,
Kiangsi, Kiangsu; (b.) Kansu, Shensi, Shansi; (c.) Fukien, Honan, Hopei, Hunan, Kwangsi, Kwangtung, Kweichow, Shantung, Szechwan and Yunnan; (d.) Heilungkiang, Kirin, Liaoning.
in Pease, "Liu Ch'ang and Liu Pin: Two Northern-Sung
Kiangsi Intellectuals," Journal of Asian History 37.1 (2003): 22-23.