Suì'ān

Sui'an was a county seat in the mountainous country of western Zhejiang, under Yanzhou Prefecture in the Ming and Qing. Its town stood beneath the hills known as Five Lions Mountain. After an uprising reached Sui'an in 1513, the magistrate Rong Jiuxiao organised the construction of walls. In 1574 another magistrate extended the defences northward, carrying them onto the steep slopes of the mountain.