Hu-pei

See also: Hupei

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 湖北 (Húběi) Wade–Giles romanization: Hu²-pei³.

Proper noun

Hu-pei

1. Alternative form of Hubei
   • 1913, Berthold Laufer, Notes on Turquois in the East‎^[2], Chicago, →OCLC, page 65:

     From one of the turquois dealers in Si-ngan fu the information was given me that the turquoises traded there come from the prefecture of Yün-yang in Hu-pei Province, while another more especially point to the district of Chu-shan, situated in the same prefecture, as the place of production. The Imperial Geography (Ta Ts'ing i t'ung chi, Ch. 272),³ in the chapter dealing with Yün-yang fu, contains no allusion to this fact, and mentions in an enumeration of the mountains of the Chu-shan district only one producing stones, the Fan shi shan, deriving its name from the fan shi or alum formerly produced there.

   • 1954, Herold J. Wiens, “The history of South Chinese tribal movements and migrations”, in Han Chinese Expansion in South China‎^[3], Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 88:

     General Fu Yu-te commanded an army of 100,000 which assembled in Hu-kuang Province (Hu-pei and Hu-nan area). Aside from a part of his army which he dispatched post-haste to Wu-san (present-day Wei-ning in western Kuei-chou)(See Photos 7 and 8), he personally led the main body. He entered Kuei-chou from Hu-nan along the Yuan River route.

   • 1988 December, Wen-kai (龔文凱) Kung, “The Official Biography of Tu Mu (803-852) in the Old T'ang History”, in Chinese Culture: A Quarterly Review‎^[4], volume XXIX, number 4, Taipei: Chinese Culture University Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 95:

     Tu Ts'ao was appointed Prefect of Ch'i-chou 蘄州 (present-day Ch'i-ch'un 蘄春 in Hu-pei Province), and Tu Mu and Yi accompanied Ts'ao to Ch'i-chou, and then Tu Mu returned to the capital.

   • 2000, Sheau-yueh J. (趙賀筱岳) Chao, “Genealogy of Chinese Surnames”, in 尋根溯源中國人的姓氏 [In Search of Your Asian Roots: Genealogical Research on Chinese Surnames]‎^[5], number 50, Clearfield Company, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 29‎^[6]:

     According to Hsing yüan 姓苑, the surname Ch'i 蘄 derived from the place name Ch'i-ch'un 蘄春, located in the present Ch'i-chun hsien 蘄春縣, Hu-pei 湖北 province.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hu-pei.