Yùshā

Yùshā belongs to Miǎnyáng, later called Xiāntáo, on the low delta between the Hàn River and the Yangtze where lakes and creeks fill the plain. Under the Yuán, Miǎnyáng was a prefecture; the Míng reduced it to a department. In 1355 Chén Yǒuliàng, a local man, raised the flag against the Yuán at Huángpéng Mountain, and in 1363 Zhū Yuánzhāng destroyed his fleet in the Battle of Poyang Lake. The district was known as a land of fish and rice among its waters.