Huáchí

Huachi lay in the loess uplands of the Qingyang region. Its historical name survived changes in administrative boundaries: the old county had already been absorbed into Heshui in 1071, and the later locality was known as Huachi Town or Huachi Stockade. During the Jin and Yuan periods the area belonged to Heshui; under the Ming and Qing, the territory of the later county was divided between Heshui and Anhua.

The surrounding Qingyang country passed to the Ming in 1369, when Xu Da's army defeated the Yuan commander Zhang Liangchen. Local historical accounts also record early Ming migration from Shanxi and Henan into the Longdong region, including Huachi. These movements helped repopulate the uplands after warfare. An older religious landmark survived at Donghuachi: its brick pagoda dates to 1099. The tower links the later villages with a Buddhist landscape established before the Mongol conquest, while the changing county affiliations explain why Huachi's early modern history appears within neighbouring jurisdictions.