Taiping Prefecture

Location of Taiping Prefecture in Anhui Province, 1820

The prefecture shown in an 1880 map, immediately southwest of Nanjing (then known as Kiangning)

Taiping Prefecture (Chinese: 太平府; pinyin: Tàipíng Fu) was an administrative region of China during the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) dynasties that spanned roughly the areas of the modern day cities of Ma'anshan and Wuhu in Anhui Province.^[1][2] During the Ming dynasty the prefecture was classified as part of Southern Zhili and later came under the administration of Anhui Province during the Qing dynasty.^[1][2] Taiping Prefecture consisted of the three counties of Dangtu, Wuhu, and Fanchang. It was abolished in 1912 with the advent of the Republic of China.^[1][2]

References

1. "人文底蕴深厚_芜湖市投资促进中心". tzcjzx.wuhu.gov.cn (in Chinese (China)). Archived from the original on 2025-08-06. Retrieved 2025-11-28.
2. "芜湖概览_芜湖市统计局". tjj.wuhu.gov.cn (in Chinese (China)). Archived from the original on 2025-08-11. Retrieved 2025-11-28.

External links

• Shin, Seojeong (2006). "Illustrations of Taiping Prefecture (1648): A Printed Album of Landscapes by the Seventeenth-Century Literati Artist, Xiao Yuncong". Digital Repository at the University of Maryland. hdl:1903/4170.
• "Taiping Prefecture's Copperware Manufacturing Skills (太平府铜壶制作技艺)" (in Chinese). Archived from the original on September 3, 2011. Retrieved December 2, 2010.