Lìmín

Limin was a place-name in the northern Hebei frontier under the Liao and Jin. A Liao county of the name belonged to Bei'anzhou; later the Jin raised a stockade called Limin to county status in 1200, only to abolish that county a few years afterwards. A later gazetteer distinguished the two, placing the Jin foundation south of the older Liao prefectural territory. The names recall successive attempts to organise this mountain borderland.