Ānhuà

Anhua was the seat county of Qingyang Prefecture in the valleys of eastern Gansu. The town stood where streams from the northern uplands gathered toward the Malian River, between loess plateaus cut by deep ravines. Its history as a regional centre reached back to Qingzhou under the Sui and Tang. The Ming retained Anhua as the county adjoining the prefectural seat, with Heshui, Huan and Zhenning among the other counties governed from Qingyang. Its old gazetteers recorded the frontier forts and waterways of the surrounding country.