Xiping

That Honan was the locus of manufacture for wares of the splashed black-glazed variety is suggested by the number of examples excavated in that province (for a reference to wares of this type excavated in Hsi-p’ing-hsien, Honan, see Sekai Tōji Zenshū, IX, 191; for a blue-glazed jar—similar in glaze and in the shape and disposition of its spots to the Palace Museum jar mentioned earlier—excavated at Pan-ch’iao, Mi-yang-hsien, Honan, see Wen Wu, 1954/9, Plate 59).

[1968, “Ceramics: Han-Sung”, in Chinese Art from The Cloud Wampler and other Collections in the Everson Museum, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58

The people of the flood-stricken area of Honan Province, central China, offered to make bigger contributions to the people in quake-afflicted area in Tangshan, recalling how the party and people throughout the country had come to their aid in their time of difficulty. After learning that a number of the wounded had arrived at the Chumachen hospital, an elderly woman of the Wangkouying people's commune in Hsiping County brought a basket of eggs to give the hospital kitchen for the injured.

[1977 January 21 [1977 January 19], “NCNA Feature on Tangshan Earthquake Victims”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 14, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →OCLC, PRC National Affairs, page E 14

In "Shindai ni okeru gigaku," pp. 299-304, Ogawa Yoshiko presents detailed information on the backgrounds of forty-one school managers in Hsi-p’ing county, Honan; almost every one was an official, a chien-sheng, or a shengyüan.

[1979, Evelyn Rawski, “Notes”, in Education and Popular Literacy in Ch'ing China, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 212

While some local governments ignore the illiteracy problem, others are actively campaigning to teach people to read and write. In the villages of Xiping County in Henan Province in central China, students stop visitors and ask them to read a few characters on a blackboard. Any visitor who cannot read the characters is not allowed to enter the village. This means that illiterates are effectively grounded, and in frustration many have joined the special reading classes offered in each village. Now in Xiping County, according to local officials, only 1.7 percent of those between the ages of 20 and 40 are illiterate.

1994 September 4, Sheryl WuDunn, “China's Rush to Riches”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2015, Section 6, page 38