Yidu

alternative I-tu · alternative Itu · alternative Yitu

1. A county-level city of Yichang, Hubei, China.

   Kingcheu commands over thirteen Cities, as Kingcheu, Cunggan, Xexeu, Kienli, Sungki, Chikiang, Iling, Changyang, Itu, Juengan, Quei, Hingxan, Patung.

   [1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 14

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   A Chinese correspondent at Ichang reports that the new soldiers enlisted by General Yuen Tso-ming of Kweichow in the district of Itu, Hupeh, are now preparing to leave there for Chungking to support General Yuen in his attempt to return to Kweichow.

   [1924 July 26 [1924 July 19], P. S. J., “News from Central China”, in The China Weekly Review, volume XXIX, number 8, sourced from Hankow, →OCLC, page 276, column 2

   Located in western Hubei Province, Yidu, like Yichang, is part of the area known as the "Gateway to the Three Gorges". In days gone by, famous poets such as Li Bai (701-762), Du Fu (712-770) and Su Shi (1037-1101) wrote poems about the city and its magnificent scenery. Yidu is also the hometown of Yang Shoujing (1839-1915), a famous scholar from the late Qing Dynasty.

   2023 January 9, Gorgeous Yichang, “Yidu City of Yichang”, in YouTube, archived from the original on 21 May 2023

   The fungi, highly sought after in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), are now being farmed on an industrial scale in China’s Hubei province. In Yidu, a county of fewer than half a million people, HEC Health has been growing cordyceps since 2007, harvesting about 50 tonnes – as much as 30 per cent of all the cordyceps collected from the wild – every year for the market.

   2023 February 19, Elise Mak, “Are zombie cordyceps real in ‘The Last of Us’? The bug-eating parasitic fungi are farmed and eaten in China by humans”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2023, Commodities