Editing Xiamen (section)

==Name==
Xiamen had always been known as [[Tong'an]] County since antiquity until [[Republic of China]] Era of the 20th century, followed by administrative zoning restructures and naming changes.

'''Tong'an''' County first appeared in [[Han dynasty]] records. [[Xiamen Island]] was described as '''Jiahe Islet''' of Tong'an County during the Song dynasty (960–1279). It received its present name from the Xiamen Defense Castle erected on the island by Zhou Dexing in 1387 during the [[Ming dynasty]] to meet the needs of coastal defense.<ref name=zgddc>{{cite book |script-title=zh:中国古今地名大词典 |page=2855 |isbn=9787532617432|year=2005 |author1=戴均良 |publisher=上海辞书出版社 }}</ref> The name was formerly written using, {{lang-zh|c=下門|s=|t=|p=|poj=|l=Lower Gate}}, and then changed into {{lang-zh|c=廈門|s=|t=|p=|poj=|l=Mansion Gate}} or "Gate of China".

After the fall of the Ming dynasty, [[Koxinga|Zheng Chenggong]], or Koxinga, a Ming loyalist and general, occupied Xiamen island as an anti-[[Qing dynasty|Qing]] base. In 1650, the seventh year of Emperor [[Shunzhi Emperor|Shunzhi]] of the Qing dynasty, Zheng set a military base in Xiamen island and changed its name into {{lang-zh|c=思明州|s=|t=|p=Sīmíng zhōu|poj=Su-bêng chiu|l=Think [[Ming]] (dynasty) Prefecture}}, meaning "Remembering the [[Ming dynasty|Ming]]".<ref>{{Cite web |title=思明区历史沿革_区划地名网（行政区划网） |url=http://www.xzqh.org/html/show/fj/9578.html |access-date=2025-01-20 |website=www.xzqh.org}}</ref>

When its port prospered under the [[Qing dynasty|Qing]], especially during the reign of [[Kangxi Emperor|Emperor Kangxi]], the island's name was changed to {{lang-zh|c=廈門|s=|t=|p=Xiàmén|poj=Ē-mn̂g / Ē͘-mûi|l=}} again.

The island's name of 思明 was in return restored after the [[Xinhai Revolution]] that inaugurated the [[Republic of China (mainland)|republic]] in 1912.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}

The island's name of 廈門 was restored in 1933, along with Xiamen being administratively planned as a city, the first of its kind in Fujian province. [[Siming District|思明]] continues to be used as the name of one of its districts.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}

Xiamen is the [[Chinese tones|atonal]] [[pinyin]] [[romanization of Chinese|romanization]] of the characters' pronunciation in [[Standard Mandarin|Mandarin]]. It has also been romanized as '''Hiamen'''.<!--not a typo-->{{sfnp|''EB''|1911}} The older English name "Amoy" was based on the same name's pronunciation in the [[Zhangzhou dialect]] of [[Hokkien language|Hokkien]], ''Ē͘-mûi''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chia |first1=Caroline |title=Hokkien Theatre Across The Seas: A Socio-Cultural Study |date=2019 |publisher=Springer |location=Singapore |isbn=978-981-13-1834-4 |page=59 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GKR5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA59 |language=en}}</ref>