Tàihú

Tàihú lies in the hills of southwestern Ānhuī, inland from the Yangtze. The county’s name and administration changed several times in the early imperial period: called Jìnxī under the Suí, it became Tàihú again in 598. Under the Táng and later dynasties it belonged to Shūzhōu, among the valleys between the Dàbié Mountains and the river.