Héhé

Héhé is the old name of Xing County, in the valleys on the western slope of the Lüliang mountains, east of the Yellow River. The Tang and Song kept a county of that name, the Jin raised the place to Xingzhou, and the Yuan held it as a lesser department. In 1261 the name Hehe County returned for a single year before Xingzhou was restored. In 1369 the Ming reduced Xingzhou to Xing County, and from 1375 it answered to Kelanzhou in Taiyuan Prefecture. The Qing shifted authority twice: in 1725 the new directly administered department of Baode took Xing County under it, and in 1730 it was returned to Taiyuan Prefecture.