Zhèngjiātún

Zhengjiatun lies west of the Liao River near the meeting of its eastern and western branches. The surrounding grasslands were pasture for the Horqin Mongols during the Qing. Tradition relates that an inn opened here in 1796 to serve travelers and merchants, and that the settlement grew around it under the name Zhengjiadian. Houses gradually gathered near the inn, giving rise to Zhengjiatun. Its position on a river route helped draw people across the open pasture country.