Huángpí

Huangpi was a county north of the Yangtze, with its seat at Qianchuan beside the She River. In the Ming it belonged to Huangzhou Prefecture. That affiliation survived the dynasty's fall, but in 1729 the Qing transferred Huangpi to Hanyang Prefecture, bringing its administration into a different relationship with the river cities to the south.

The county also maintained a distinctive memory of the Cheng brothers, Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi, whose childhood was associated with Huangpi. Later generations commemorated these formative figures of Neo-Confucian learning through shrines and the Shuangfeng Pavilion at Lutai Hill. The pavilion's name drew on the story of two phoenixes appearing in their mother's dream. Built in the Ming and rebuilt in the Qing, the monument gave scholarly ancestry a visible place in the county landscape, joining local identity to an intellectual tradition honoured throughout imperial China.