[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:
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.]
The region was hit by a rainstorm at the time when the wheat was milking, and daily rainfall exceeded 200 milimetres in many communes and production brigades in the worst afflicted Luyi County. The Luyi County party committee led the commune members in draining the fields in the midst of heavy rain, thus freeing them from inundation.
The Records of Henan Province notes that Taiqing Temple lies five kilometres east of Henan Province’s Luyi County (formerly known as Kuxian of the State of Chu), hometown of Lao Zi, the founder of the Taoist school of thought.
In 2003, the court of Luyi County in Henan Province issued its verdict in a lawsuit involving AIDS infection by blood transfusion, ruling that the defendant, the clinic of Xinji Town in Luyi County pay the plaintiff a total of 400,000 yuan in compensation for psychological trauma and to cover expenses for continuing treatment, pay the plaintiff’s elder daughter a total of 110,000 yuan as compensation for psychological trauma and living expenses, and pay the plaintiff’s wife and second daughter a total of 30,000 yuan for medical fees, compensation for bereavement and funeral costs.
2016 May 2, Emily Rauhala, Gu Jinglu, “Domestic abuse is thriving in China’s culture of silence”, in Washington Post[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 May 2016[6]:
The director of the federation’s Luyi County office, Guo Yanfang, said the organization has been spreading the word about the new anti-domestic violence law and encouraging survivors to seek help.
