Ming-Qing Documents

II.13 Fuquan Jiang genealogy excerpts

Preface
Glossary

浯銅 - wutong - wuyu 浯嶼 and tongshan 銅山, the two bases previously mentioned

戶侯 - huhou - hereditary officeholder, abbreviated from wan-hu-hou 萬戶侯, qian-hu-hou 千戶侯, bai-hu-hou 百戶侯, etc...

為山九仞功在一簣 - weishanjiurengongzaiyikui - a job is not completed until the final step, literally "in building a mountain 9 ren high (about 24 meters), the achievement is in the last basket [of dirt]"

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