Jīngshān

Jingshan was a county of the Anlu region in central Hubei. Its early modern history can be traced through local records of institutions and rebuilding. A text preserved in the Anlu prefectural gazetteer describes the county's Confucian temple-school: earlier images of the sages had been replaced with statues, but the side halls were too cramped to contain the full ritual assembly.

Officials and local supporters therefore enlarged the halls and added thirty-two figures. Work began in the third lunar month of 1346 and was completed in the fourth month of 1347. The project joined county government, teaching and public ritual in one establishment. Another inscription records the restoration of Jingshan's administration after the wars at the end of the Yuan. Construction began in autumn 1370 and finished the following summer, providing offices, officials' residences and buildings for receiving visitors. These accounts show how successive governments made their authority concrete through schools, ritual spaces and the physical rebuilding of the county seat.