Definition of "landholding"

Thus the unendurable burden on the temples was lightened. For instance, the annual surtaxes of Buddhist temples' landholdings of Hsia-p'u county which had amounted to 515 taels in the late Ming dropped to 309 taels after Ch'ien-lung's edict, and to 229 taels soon afterwards.

1990, Eduard B. Vermeer, Development and Decline of Fukien Province in the 17th and 18th Centuries‎, page 97