Gǔtián

Gǔtián sits in the forested mountains along the Gǔtián Stream in northern Fújiàn, a county cut out of Mǐn County in 741 and counted among the ten counties of Fúzhōu. It came under Fúzhōu Route in 1278 and returned to Fúzhōu Prefecture in 1368, the first year of the Míng. The scholar Zhū Xī is said to have lived here, which gave the county its title of "town of the former worthy".

Gǔtián is also the home of the cult of Chén Jìnggū, the Lady of Línshuǐ, a protector of women in childbirth. Her ancestral palace stands at Dàqiáo, and daughter temples later spread through Fújiàn and across the strait to Taiwan. In 1734 the Yōngzhèng court took the thirteen northern districts of the county to create Píngnán County.