Shòuzhāng

Shouzhang is an old county of the western Shandong plain, in a landscape repeatedly reshaped by the Yellow River. Floods could make a county town untenable: in 1167 the river damaged the city and the seat was moved to Zhukou before returning to its former site twelve years later. The early Ming dissolved the county in 1370, but restored it and moved its seat to Wanglingdian in 1381. There it remained under Yanzhou prefecture through the Qing period.