Pichan

Pichan is an oasis at the eastern end of the Turpan Basin. Its Uyghur name was rendered in Chinese as Bizhan, while the fertile ground around it was known under several earlier names. The Tang administered part of the district as Puchang, and it later belonged to the Uyghur kingdom of Qocho. In the fifteenth century the area came under Turpan; in 1759 the Qing appointed an official at Pichan and made it one of the region's six towns.