Liánchéng

Liánchéng lies in the mountainous interior of western Fújiàn. It began as Liánchéng Fort within Chángtīng and became a county in 1133 under the Southern Sòng. The county school was established a few years later. In 1355, during the troubled final decades of the Yuán dynasty, the written form of its name was changed: the first character, meaning 'lotus', was replaced by another meaning 'to connect', though the name is still read Liánchéng.