Jīnchéng

Jincheng here was the county at the seat of Yingzhou, in present-day Yingxian in northern Shanxi. It remained a county under the Yuan, when Yingzhou belonged to Datong Circuit and administered Jincheng and Shanyin. At the beginning of the Ming, Jincheng County was absorbed into Yingzhou itself. The administrative name disappeared, while the town continued as the departmental seat. Historical accounts also record a rebuilding of the town's walls in 1375, reducing the enclosed area against the existing southeastern walls.

The town's most distinctive older monument was the timber Sakyamuni Pagoda of Fogong Temple, completed under the Liao in 1056. Its octagonal structure combined five visible stories with four concealed structural levels. Buddhist images and successive inscriptions connected this earlier foundation with later generations. During the Ming and Qing, the pagoda remained celebrated, and repairs were recorded in inscriptions and commemorative tablets. The old county's history therefore survives in both administrative records and a major religious building.