Jiāchuān

Jiachuan lies in the mountain country of northern Sichuan, east of Guangyuan. The site was once the seat of Xinglè County, established under the Liu Song dynasty, and was renamed Jiachuan under the Western Wei. Its position among the river valleys and wooded hills placed it within the historic routes and administrative districts of northern Sichuan. Jiachuan remained a county through the Song period. Warfare in the closing years of the dynasty left the wider Lizhou region devastated, and in the early Yuan the county was incorporated into neighbouring Miangu. The older county name nevertheless survived in the locality, preserving a connection to its long administrative past.