Qín'ān

Qin'an lies in the valleys and loess hills north of Qinzhou. Its name dates to 1157, when the Jin dynasty established a county here; under the Yuan, the neighbouring counties of Jichuan and Longcheng were incorporated into it. The district is associated with ancient traditions of Fuxi and Nüwa, as well as the memory of the Three Kingdoms battle at Jieting.

Among the buildings of the county town was Xingguo Temple, whose main hall had taken shape by the Zhishun reign of the Yuan, in 1330–1332. The Buddhist complex was counted among Qin'an's celebrated sights in the Ming. During the Jiajing reign the local scholar and official Hu Zuanzong wrote the temple's name and the inscription for its Prajñā Hall. The town also had a Confucian temple founded before 1297, whose principal hall dates from the Ming.