Liángshān

Liangshan lies in a broad basin between parallel ridges east of the Sichuan Basin. Fields of rice and wheat spread across its low ground, while wooded hills surround the plain. Its position made it a passage between the northern and southern approaches to eastern Sichuan. Warfare and upheaval at the end of the Ming left much land deserted; under the Qing, migrants from other provinces settled in the district and helped repopulate its villages.