Qiūxiàn

Qiu County stands on the northern plain near the Shandong border. Its county gazetteer records that the Yuan established the town at this site, raising earthen walls and digging a moat to protect it. Later officials repaired the fortifications. In 1675 the magistrate Wang Guoxi organised the work by assigning each village a stretch of wall according to the number of households it contained; stones marked their responsibilities, and a stele at the county office recorded the arrangement.