Qiányòu

Qianyou lies in the wooded valleys south of the Qinling crest, on the river that shares its name. The Qianyou River, formerly called the Zha River, rises in the mountains and flows south through Zhen'an toward the Han. An old county seat known successively as Anye, Qianyuan and Qianyou stood in this valley. In the Qing, Xiaoyi subprefecture was established from parts of neighbouring counties in the 1780s; its seat was moved to the Qianyou valley in 1802.