Dahan, Then Shihan: A Village Found Twice
A village name in an 1841 gazetteer and a scholar's 2011 return along a late-Qing travel route frame Shihan's changing place in Hainan's central mountains.
Shihan Village
A Li and Miao co-inhabited village in Hongmao Town, recorded as Dahan in 1841 and later revisited along a scholar's route through a late-Qing travel book.
Shihan stands in a high basin between Limu Mountain and Yinggeling, above 800 metres, with streams, rice fields and homes in the same landscape. Its story is unusually legible through two moments: the name Dahan in the 1841 Daoguang Gazetteer, and the 2011 visit of Hainan University professor Xin Shibiao as he retraced the route of an American missionary, whose late-Qing travel account he was translating. At the time of the 2011 visit, the account describes mud-brick homes and hardship; later it records homestays, mountain tea and medicinal plants as new parts of the village economy.
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The Hainan rural-tourism feature identifies this image with Shihan's shared farm. The frame shows village roofs, trees, distant ridges and warm-toned clouds; it does not establish a time of day or show a person or historical event.Photographer not stated; image shown in the Hainan Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs tourism feature. · Rights unknown; selected under the established official-source policy Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ The source-page image bytes are retained privately at the served 1080×607 size. The Hainan agriculture department's shared-farm tourism guide places the image with its Shihan Village feature. No photographer, license or capture date is stated; the 2024-10-09 HTTP file timestamp is not a capture date.