Qing (Chinese) (qing)

ChineseTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

100 mu: about 6.67 hectares (66,667 m²). A traditional Chinese land unit.

1 qing (Chinese) = 66,666.66667 square meters (approximately).

About the qing (Chinese)

Where the mu suits a family plot, the qing counts large holdings. It is defined as 100 mu, which comes to 6.67 hectares in the modern market system, or about 16.47 acres. Wikipedia glosses it in English as the Chinese hide, borrowing an old English term for a household's farmland.

Its size depends entirely on the mu beneath it. With the 1915 mu of 614.4 m² a qing was about 6.1 hectares, and with the 1930 mu of 666.67 m² it is the figure used here. Older dynasty values were smaller still, as the Han mu worked out to only about 461 m². The qing is now mostly a historical and literary term, and Chinese agriculture reports land in mu, hectares or, for large areas, in ten thousands of mu.

Sources: Wikipedia: Chinese units of measurement; Wikipedia: Mu (unit)

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