Definition of "Tai"

The first ancestor of Zhou tribe was Hou Ji who originally lived in Tai (today's Wugong of Shaanxi), and duke of Liu , his successor, moved to Bin (today's Bin county of Shaanxi), and then passed down to the lord of Dan. […] Qi later settled down in Tai (southwest of Wugong county of today's Shaanxi), which was located the center of the fertile land of Weibei Plain. […] The poem Duke Liu, which only has 6 sections and 234 Chinese characters in total, vividly narrates duke Liu's moving from Tai (today's Wugong county , Shaanxi province) to Bin (today's Binxian county, Shaanxi province) and big events regarding him in a very organized structure.

2016, M Yong et al., “Originating Period of Tourism Culture”, in The General History of Chinese Tourism Culture‎, archived from the original on 2023-07-21, pages 11, 26, 27‎

The Tais first appeared in history in Yunnan, and from thence they migrated into Upper Burma. The earliest swarms appear to have entered that tract about two thousand years ago, and were small in number.

1901, Census of India

Five short stories concern land reform, elections in the border region, and anti-Japanese activities:[...]e) “Feng-pao Tai-hsien-chʻeng” 風暴代縣城 (Storms in Tai County). A twenty-year-old anti-Japanese hero does not surrender even when he is captured and executed.

1979, Meishi Tsai, Contemporary Chinese Novels and Short Stories, 1949-1974: An Annotated Bibliography‎, Harvard University Press, page 142

Kuang-wu 廣武 lay in the southwestern part of today's Tai County 代縣, Shansi; Wu and Lu, 93.3392n.

1994 , Ssu-ma Chʻien, edited by William Nienhauser, The Grand Scribe's Records‎, Indiana University Press, page 114

Kou-chu Mountains: today called Yen-men Mountains, a mountain range located to the southeast of Ma-yi, near present-day Tai county, in Shansi (Chung-kuo li-shih ti-t'u chi, 2:17-18, 3-10).

2002, Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History‎, page 190