Lái'ān

Lái’ān lies east of Chúzhōu between the Huái basin and the Yangtze. Its northern country is hilly, while rivers cross the lower land to the south. The county took the name Lái’ān under the Southern Táng. During the Míng, the Zhāng family and their neighbours reclaimed low-lying land with embankments, building villages beside the fields they protected.