Xin'an County, Guangdong
| Bao'an County 宝安县 |
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| • | Established | 331 | |||
| • | Disestablished | 1979 | |||
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 China
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| Bao'an County | |||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 宝安县 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 寶安縣 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Postal | Poon County | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Xin'an County | |||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 新安县 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 新安縣 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Postal | Sunon County | ||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | New peace | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Bǎo'ān Xiàn |
| Wade–Giles | Pao3-an1 Hsien4 |
| Hakka | |
| Romanization | Bau3on1 Hien4 |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Bóu ōn yuhn |
| Jyutping | Bou2 on1 jyun6 |
| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Xīn'ān Xiàn |
| Wade–Giles | Hsin1-an1 Hsien4 |
| Hakka | |
| Romanization | Sin1on1 Hien4 |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | San1 on1 jyun6 |
| Jyutping | Sān ōn yuhn |
Bao'an County (simplified Chinese: 宝安县; traditional Chinese: 寶安縣), formerly named Xin'an County was a historic county in South China. It includes the city of Shenzhen and Hong Kong. For most of its history, the administrative center of the county was in Nantou.
During the time of the Three Kingdoms, the later Bao'an County, along with Dongguan and Boluo counties, formed a single large district with the name Boluo (博羅).
In 331, the Eastern Jin Dynasty established Bao'an County, one of six counties under Dōngguān (東官) Prefecture. This prefecture's area included modern Shenzhen and Dongguan. In the second year of the Zhide of Suzong under the Tang Dynasty (757 AD), Dōngguān was renamed to Dōngguǎn (東莞).
In the 27th year of Hongwu Emperor's (1368–1399, founder of the Ming dynasty) reign, Hongwu appointed an officer with the title Shou-yu-suo (Chinese: 守御所; literally: "Protector of the region") to protect the local population from robbers and vagabonds which increasingly infested the district.
In 1573, the first year of the reign of Wanli of the Ming Dynasty, Xin'an County (sometimes referred to as district) was established as a separate administrative division of Guangzhou Prefecture. The area was then separated from the old Dongguan County due to military reasons.
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