Tongxu

To the east of Chu-hsien Chen some scores of villages in Tʻung-hsü Hsien were covered with ten feet of water from a branch which afterwards followed the channel of the Chʻing-kang River and inundated Tʻai-kang and Lu-i Hsien.

[1887 November 24 [1887 November 9], A CORRESPONDENT, “THE YELLOW RIVER.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume XXXIX, number 1060, Shanghai, sourced from Peking, →OCLC, page 563, column 1

Kaifeng was raided by the Chinese twice, who remained there long enough to smash up the Japanese puppet organizations. They also dislodged the Japanese from the nearby town of Tunghsu and disrupted the Lung-Hai Railway, cutting the Japanese line of supply to Kaifeng.

[1939 January, Lin Yu, “"The China Incident"”, in Philippine Magazine, volume XXXVI, number 1 (369), →OCLC, page 211

Zhang Jiannong has been working the same cotton field in Tongxu County, Henan Province, for the last twenty-two years — a half-acre plot leased to him after the break-up of the People’s Agricultural Collective in 1982. He pays $27 a year as an "agricultural tax" on his plot, and no property tax for his house. All of the 400 farmers in his village in the Yellow River floodplain grow cotton on plots of roughly the same size in rich alluvial soil. Ancient irrigation canals still water the area. Heavy rains come in the summer.

2005, Stephen Yafa, “Fields of Conflict”, in Big Cotton, Viking Penguin, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 328