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Today, we are talking about the story of why some counties in Hebei Province got their names.
Portrait of Chai Rong
There are a few plain counties in Hebei Province that do not have mountains but are named after "mountains". These include Xiongxian, Wangdu, Wuji, and Wuqiang.
Wangdu County is a very historical and cultural county, this county is famous for producing peppers. The name of Wangdu County is closely related to Emperor Yao. The meaning of Wangdu County is explained in the commentary on the Book of Han and Geography. Originally, baoding had Yiqi Mountain, which was the residence of Emperor Yao. And Emperor Yao's mother Qingdu lived in Dushan, the two mountains were 10 kilometers apart, And Emperor Yao climbed the mountain to look at his mother, so he had the name of the county of "Wangdu".
However, Yiqi Mountain is generally believed to be in Shunping County, Baoding City, and Dushan is in Tang County, and neither of these mountains is in Wangdu County.
Xiong County in Baoding was also Pingyuan County, a county named after the Later Zhou Emperor Chai Rong. During chairong's northern expedition, he named Xiongzhou, Bazhou, and Dacheng counties in Hebei. Later, Xiongzhou was demoted to a county, so there was Xiong County. In the Qing Dynasty Gu Zuyu's "Minutes of Reading Historical Opinion", it was said that there were two earthen mountains in this county, and the original text was: "The county governs the southwest of the second mile." The height is tens of meters, and the peak is flat and wide. A wangshan, with its standard collar, is also looked after by the public. Its left wing is Xiaoxiong Mountain, Qifeng Tooth Column, and Shi Ji Ganquan Out. ”
These are two earthen mountains, which are spectacular in the plain area, and Xiong County is also due to the large and small Xiong mountains.
There are two theories about the origin of Wuqiang County in Hengshui City, one is that it came from the Wuqiang Marquisate in the territory, and this incident is recorded in the Song Dynasty's "Taiping Huanyu Record". In the Qing Dynasty Li Wei and others presided over the compilation of the "Qifu Tongzhi" also gives a statement, saying that there is a Wuqiang Mountain in Wuqiang County, the original text is: "Wuqiang Mountain, sixty miles east of the prefecture, shaped like a bow, a bow-shaped mountain, the name of Jinzhi County took this." It is conceivable that Wuqiang Mountain is also a small earth mountain in the plain area.
Wuji County in Shijiazhuang City was originally called Wuji County, which was renamed Wuji County during the reign of Wu Zetian. The county was also a plain county, but got its name from a stone mountain located in today's Yuanshi County.
Wuji Mountain is in the western part of Yuanshi County, nearly 18 kilometers from the county seat of Yuanshi County, with an altitude of 356 meters. In the Qing Dynasty's "Qing Yi Tongzhi" recorded: "Wuji Mountain is in the west of Yuanshi County, more than 160 miles away from Wuji County, the county is named after the mountain, but there is no mountain shape. ”
Portrait of Wu Zetian
In addition, Cangzhou has a Yanshan County, which is also a plain county. At that time, Yanshan County had a large area under its jurisdiction, and it was named after a mountain in its territory. This mountain is the Jieshi Mountain currently located in Wudi County, Shandong Province. This mountain was also called Wudi Mountain in ancient times, and it was called "Salt Mountain" because the mountain was produced by the bright moon under the mountain. At that time, the county jurisdiction area was large, and later this mountain entered the jurisdiction of Shandong, thus forming the "spectacle" of hebei county named after the mountain in Shandong.
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