Chu-shan

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.

1913, Berthold Laufer, Notes on Turquois in the East, Chicago, →OCLC, page 65

As for the rice trade in Hupeh, it is noteworthy that in the early nineteenth century, rice from Chu-shan and Chu-hsi-two districts in hilly north-western Hupeh-was even demanded by Hsün-yang and Pai-ho in southern Shensi (28).

Notes on the Grain Trade in the Han River Area During the Nineteenth Century

1977, Ts'ui-Jung Liu (劉翠溶), “十九世紀漢水流域的糧食貿易 [Notes on the Grain Trade in the Han River Area During the Nineteenth Century]”, in Proceedings of the National Science Council, volume 1, number 11, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2021, page 137