Xīnníng

Xinning lies in the mountain country south of Wugang, along the Fuyi River. Its county gazetteers preserve a record of the ferries that carried people across the water. The earliest surviving gazetteer, printed in 1606, listed three crossings, while the 1823 edition recorded thirty-six along the river. At one old ferry, a field belonging to a local lineage supplied the ferryman's provisions. Xinning was one of the counties administered from Wugang after that district was raised to military prefecture in the Song.