Zhéchéng

Zhecheng lies among the waterways of the eastern Henan plain, where the Sha River joins the Huiji. The Yellow River's breaches brought repeated trouble to the county and made river work a shared burden. Its gazetteer records people hauling great quantities of willow branches to close a breach in the early Qing. In the Qianlong reign, work began on clearing a stretch of the Sha River from the Taikang boundary past the county's western bridge to its junction with the Huiji.