Interpretations of The name Of The nien army

Chinese Studies in History 13 (3):58-63 (1980)
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St, what did the word nien itself mean? There are five retations. The first holds that it referred to a place people congregated. Ch'a K'uei's "Lun An-hui li-chih" [On ficer System in Anhwei] states,1 "They carried swords and ed into units by the tens and hundreds. … The places they gathered were known as nien-tzu; the large nien-tzu red several hundred people." In 1814, T'ao Chu, the Im- Censor wrote,2 "They gather and commit improprieties ad daylight. Each group is known as a nien. A small onsists of from several to several dozen persons. A nien includes from one to two hundred people."

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