Diànjiāng

Dianjiang lies in the hills north of the Yangtze, a county known for the peonies of the Mingyue Mountains. Their flowers were admired for their colour, while the root bark was valued as medicine. Old inscriptions beside the roads recall the county's connections with its neighbours; one records the repair of a relay station ordered by the magistrate Yang Zhen in 1478, during the Ming dynasty.