Ho-pei

Soon afterwards his wife died of old age, and his sons begged him to marry again into some good family ; but he said he should be obliged to go to Ho-pei first ; and then, calculating his dates, found that the appointed time had arrived. So he ordered his horses and servants, and set off for Ho-pei, where he discovered that there actually was a high official names Lu.

1909, Herbert A. Giles, transl., Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, 2nd edition, T. Werner Laurie, page 150

By 1985, a volume of the famous scholar Jao Tsung-I/Rao Zongyi (together with Tseng Hsien-tung/Zeng Xiantong) appeared under the title “Studies on the Inscriptions of the Bells and Chimes From the Tomb of Marquis Yi of the Tseng State at Sui-Hsien” (Province of Ho-pei/Hebei, county of Sui).

1989, Fritz A. Kuttner, “Bronze Bells”, in The Archaeology of Music in Ancient China, 1st edition, New York: Paragon House, published 1990, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 31

With this huge following, he could take over the Empire. But other advisors urged Li Ching-yeh first to go north to the province of Ho-pei, where the finest fighting men were to be found and where the people were the most resentful of the rule of the Dowager Empress.

2007, Nigel Cawthorne, Daughter of Heaven, Oneworld Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 126