Lèzhì

Lezhi lies in the rolling country of the central Sichuan Basin. Its name came from Lezhi Pool, and the Tang established a county here in 620. Abolished in the late Song and subsequently governed from Anyue, it was restored as a separate county in 1465. Warfare in the seventeenth century left the district thinly populated, and its administration was again merged with neighbouring counties. The Qing restored Lezhi and appointed officials there in 1680; Anyue was separated from it again in 1728.