Tz'u-hsi

The same tendency can be illustrated on a prefectural scale as Table 6 showing Ning-po, with breakdowns for its five constituent counties, shows. Except for the figures of Tz’u-hsi county, which show a steady decline, the population returns indicate either very slight changes or no change whatever in a full generation.

1959, Ping-ti Ho, “The Nature of Ming Population Data”, in Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18

So begins an inscription on Mount Tai Academy written in 1275 by Huang Chen (1213-1280; 1256 chin-shih), one of Chu Hsi’s noted thirteenth-century followers whose native place was Ming's Tz’u-hsi County, also the home of Lu Chiu-yuan’s major disciple, Yang Chien.

1999, Linda A. Walton, “Shrines, Schools, and Shih: The Thirteenth-Century Academy Movement”, in Academies and Society in Southern Sung China, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 66

Ming-chou is modern Ningbo. Huang came from Tz’u-hsi County in the north of the prefecture, on the shore of Hang-chou Bay.

2002, Robert Hymes, “Notes”, in Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 307