Definition of "Sui"

At P’inglin (north-east of the present Sui county, Hupeh), more than one thousand people rose under Ch’en Mu, calling themselves the “P’inglin Army”.

1954, Mao Tse-tung, Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung‎, volume 3, Bombay: People's Publishing House, page 248

Shen-nung’s geographical origin has been controversial. According to a peasant tradition he was born in a village at the northern border of the county of Sui in Hupei and has been worshipped there (Ching-chou-chi in T’P’YL 189, 6b).

1968, Wolfram Eberhard, translated by Alide Eberhard, The Local Cultures of South and East China‎, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 220

In the past, Mao Pao was ferried across the river [in time of danger] because earlier he had set free a tortoise,⁵ and the marquis of Sui received a pearl because he had saved a snake.⁶[...]⁶ Sui was a principality (in Sui County in modern Hupeh Province) in the Warring States period. The marquis of Sui once saved a wounded snake. In return, the snake searched for a large pearl in the river and gave it to the marquis.

1978, “The Chun-shan Wolf”, in Conrad Lung, transl., edited by Y. W. Ma and Joseph S. M. Lau, Traditional Chinese Stories‎, New York: Columbia University Press, page 117

By 1985, a volume of the famous scholar Jao Tsung-I/Rao Zongyi (together with Tseng Hsien-tung/Zeng Xiantong) appeared under the title “Studies on the Inscriptions of the Bells and Chimes From the Tomb of Marquis Yi of the Tseng State at Sui-Hsien” (Province of Ho-pei/Hebei, county of Sui).

1989, Fritz A. Kuttner, “Bronze Bells”, in The Archaeology of Music in Ancient China‎, 1st edition, New York: Paragon House, published 1990, page 31

Mr Zeng returned to Sui county, about 200km north of Wuhan, on January 21 to celebrate the Chinese new year with his parents.[...]“If the disease drags on for two months, the start-up I work for will go under and I’ll lose my job,” he said. “There is nothing I can do about this except hope the epidemic will end soon. I am ready to spend a few months in Sui County.”

2020 February 7, Don Weinland, Sun Yu, Xinning Liu, “Chinese villages build barricades to keep coronavirus at bay”, in Financial Times‎, archived from the original on February 8, 2020‎