Yíshuǐ

Yishui stands beside the Yi River, with hills rising east of the county town. The ancient settlement was known as Dongguan under the Han and received the name Yishui in 596. Its inner and outer walls were repaired repeatedly from the Yuan onward. In 1511 an uprising reached the county and destroyed its offices and town buildings. Later inhabitants rebuilt and recorded their history in local gazetteers; a surviving edition was compiled by the magistrate Huang Ludeng in 1672.