Quèshān

Queshan stands between the hills of southern Henan and the open plains to the east. Its county seat was once called Langshan, a name changed to Queshan under the Song in 1012. South of the town was the older city of Langling, named for a nearby mountain and occupied in Han times. The county's later gazetteers described a landscape divided between broad plains and steep hills, on routes reaching toward Luoyang, Nanyang and the south.