Hu-chou

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.

1966 [1637], Sung Ying-Hsing, “Clothing materials”, in E-tu Zen Sun, Shiou-Chuan Sun, transl., Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century: T'ien-kung K'ai-wu, Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, published 1997, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 36

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.

1981, Lillian M. Li, “Bureaucratic Myths and Sericulture”, in China's Silk Trade: Traditional Industry in the Modern World 1842-1937, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 135

Story: When Liu Yen-hui's father is prefect of Hu-chou 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 房州, the grateful turtle appears to assist his family trapped in a flood.

1995, Glen Dudbridge, Religious Experience and Lay Society in T'ang China: a reading of Tai Fu's Kuang-i chi, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 235