Hu-chou

húchòu English Etymology From en cmn 湖州 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Hu²-chou¹.Huzhou, Wade-Giles romanization Hu-chou, in Encyclopædia Britannica Proper noun 1 1 en Huzhou. en 1966 1637 Sung Ying-Hsing Clothing materials E-tu Zen Sun; Shiou-Chuan Sun Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century: Tiangong Kaiwu T'ien-kung K'ai-wu https://archive.org/details/chinesetechnolog0000song/ Mineola, NY w:Dover Publications 1997 0-486-29593-1 96-53237 924843306 36 https://archive.org/details/chinesetechnolog0000song/page/36/ The female moth immediately begins laying her eggs, which are deposited either on sheets of paper or on cloth, according to local practice (in Chia-hsing and Hu-chou [both in the Lake T’ai region in Chekiang province] thick mulberry bark paper is used; this can be reused in the next year).Only the silk-moth [eggs] of Chia-hsing and Hu-chou prefectures are put through the bathing process. In Hu-chou the method consists of using either rain and snow water or lime [water], while in Chia-hsing brine is used. en 1970 1968 w:Shiba Yoshinobu w:Mark Elvin Commerce and Society in Sung China https://archive.org/details/commercesocietyi00shib/ 1992 0-89264-902-X 1181343913 4197231M 102 https://archive.org/details/commercesocietyi00shib/page/102/ Fish were produced in Hu-chou for sale at the Southern Sung capital. en 1981 Lillian M. Li Bureaucratic Myths and Sericulture China's Silk Trade: Traditional Industry in the Modern World 1842-1937 https://books.google.com/books?id=UvYavMVxBTUC w:Harvard University Press 0-674-11962-2 81-2409 878668994 135 https://books.google.com/books?id=UvYavMVxBTUC&pg=PA135 Another example was that of the magistrate of Ching-chiang hsien in Kiangsu, named Huang Shih-pen, a native of Ch'ien-t'ang in Hangchow prefecture, who also purchased mulberry saplings from Hu-chou and tried to teach the local people sericultural techniques from Chekiang. en 1995 w:Glen Dudbridge Religious Experience and Lay Society in T'ang China: a reading of Tai Fu's Kuang-i chi https://archive.org/details/religiousexperie0000dudb/ w:Cambridge University Press 0-521-89322-4 94-46149 1051653716 235 https://archive.org/details/religiousexperie0000dudb/page/235/ Story: When Liu Yen-hui's father is prefect of Hu-chou zh 湖州 a turtle is found in a silver mine-pit and Presented to him with congratulations. But the father takes back the turtle and releases it. Years later, when Liu Yen-hui himself is on the way to his own post in Fang-chou zh 房州, the grateful turtle appears to assist his family trapped in a flood. en Translations Huzhou References