Yíjūn

Yijun lies in the hills south of Fuzhou, where valleys cut through the wooded edge of the Loess Plateau. The old county was connected with Yuhua Palace, a Tang retreat built in a mountain valley. The palace was later converted into a Buddhist temple, where the monk Xuanzang worked on translations of scriptures. The county seat itself moved over time, and the Yuan transferred Yijun from the abolished Fangzhou to Fuzhou. It remained under Fuzhou through the Ming and Qing.