Biyang

That Honan was the locus of manufacture for wares of the splashed black-glazed variety is suggested by the number of examples excavated in that province (for a reference to wares of this type excavated in Hsi-p’ing-hsien, Honan, see Sekai Tōji Zenshū, IX, 191; for a blue-glazed jar—similar in glaze and in the shape and disposition of its spots to the Palace Museum jar mentioned earlier—excavated at Pan-ch’iao, Mi-yang-hsien, Honan, see Wen Wu, 1954/9, Plate 59).

[1968, “Ceramics: Han-Sung”, in Chinese Art from The Cloud Wampler and other Collections in the Everson Museum, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58

The village of Nia Seng in Piyang county is famous as the birth place of two famous generals of the Six Dynasties period (AD 222-589). But that county is perhaps more famous today for its luscious pears, perhaps China’s best.[…] The town was saved. Then there was a militiaman, Liu Hsiao-mo, of the Yangcheng brigade in Shahotien of Piyang county. He took a small boat and res- cued many people.

[1978 February, Rewi Alley, “The Epic of Chumatien”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVII, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 5, 7