Chúnhuà

Chunhua lies among the uplands north of the Wei River plain. The district was once part of Yunyang, a place of imperial palaces in Qin and Han times. North of the later county town stood Ganquan Palace, visited by Han emperors for ceremonies and celebrated in a prose poem by Yang Xiong. In 993 the Song made Liyuan a county seat and named the new county Chunhua after the reigning emperor's era. A Qing gazetteer carefully distinguished this Liyuan from the famous Tang court music school of the same name.