Lèpíng

Leping is an old county town among the mountains of eastern Shanxi. Under the Ming it belonged to Pingding department and maintained schools and temples alongside its county offices. Its Jiajing-era gazetteer, recording events up to 1543, gathered poems and inscriptions as well as accounts of local geography and people. Among the writings were pieces on the county school, the City God Temple and the restoration of Shousheng Temple, preserving the voices of successive generations of scholars.