Luònán

Luonan takes its name from its position south of the upper Luo River, among the eastern Qinling Mountains. Local tradition associates nearby Yangxu Mountain with Cangjie, the legendary inventor of Chinese writing, who was said to have observed signs there and devised characters. A Confucian temple of the Ming also stood in the county. In 1821 the magistrate Wang Senwen had an inscription reproducing the traditional characters carved in stone below Yangxu Mountain, where villagers honoured Cangjie at the spring festival of Guyu.