Nóng'ān

Nong'an lies on the plains of central Manchuria, at a site associated with the old city of Huanglong. Long before the fourteenth century, local histories identify it with a capital of the Buyeo kingdom. Under the Liao dynasty Huanglong was an important administrative and military centre, and its surviving brick pagoda recalls the Buddhist culture of that era. The city's fortunes changed under the Jin and Mongol regimes, leaving later inhabitants a landscape marked by earlier fortifications and monuments. In the early Qing period the area formed part of the pastoral lands of the Gorlos Front Banner. Settlement and cultivation increased later in the eighteenth century as land was opened to migrants.