Lishui Towns · Lishui District, Nanjing, Jiangsu

How this corner of Lishui was divided, named and settled

Five subdistricts, three towns and 118 villages and communities, with the origins of their names, the traditional villages and the surnames that cluster there. Every entry gives its seat, area and committee counts, records its sources, and appears in Chinese and English.

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Subdistrictsjiedao The five subdistricts — Yongyang, Zhetang, Dongping, Honglan and Shiqiu — the district government’s own offices. 5 entries Browse all Townszhen The three towns — Baima, Hefeng and Jingqiao — the same tier of administration as the subdistricts. 3 entries Browse all Villages and Communitiescunshequ Villagers’ and residents’ committees, 118 of them across the district. 25 entries Browse all Traditional Villagesgucunluo Chinese traditional villages and traditional villages of Jiangsu, entered batch by batch from the published lists. 12 entries Browse all Place Names and Originsdiming Accounts of how towns and villages got their names, with the administrative history and the divergent official figures. 4 entries Browse all Surnames and Lineagexingshi Where surnames cluster and ancestral halls or genealogies can be traced, gathered across villages. 1 entries Browse all

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Towns and Subdistricts The five subdistricts and three towns of Lishui District. Each entry gives its unit type, seat, area and the number of villages and communities under it, following the district government’s administrative divisions page; where a second official figure exists, both are shown. 8 entries Browse all Villages Villagers’ and residents’ committees, together with the settlements on the Chinese traditional village list and the Jiangsu list. Entries that carry a listing state its batch and year; anything the lists do not give is left to be filled in. 37 entries Browse all Place Names and Surnames Entries written here: the accounts given for how towns and villages got their names, the administrative history, the two official sets of figures for area and committee counts, and a cross-village gathering of surnames and ancestral halls. Traditions keep their original wording and are kept apart from record. 5 entries Browse all

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Subdistrict Subdistricts Zhetang Subdistrict A subdistrict sharing its administration with the Nanjing Lishui Economic Development Zone, the only one in the district with no village committees Zhetang Subdistrict lies in the north of Lishui District and shares its administration with the Nanjing Lishui Economic Development Zone. In July 2015 Zhetang Town was abolished and the subdistrict was set up over the same administrative area, with the office at 8 Tuanshan West Road (Su Zheng Fu [2015] No. 69). The district government's "Administrative Divisions" page gives an area of 134.06 square kilometres and 16 residents' committees with no village committees, making it the only one of the district's eight township units without village committees. The Song Ying tomb at Tuanshan, Wushan, within the subdistrict is a provincial-level protected site. The Kangxi gazetteer of Lishui County records the place name Zhetang in its entry on Chenjia Well, in the settlement name "Chengzhuang Village of Zhetang", which is the earliest gazetteer attestation of the name held here. Administrative divisionSubdistrictDevelopment zone unchecked Standard Village Villages and Communities Xisong Village A natural village under Taocun Community, Jingqiao Town, and the home of the Xisong horse-lantern dance Xisong Village belongs to Taocun Community, Jingqiao Town, Lishui District, and is the home of the Xisong horse-lantern dance. According to the Nanjing Morning Post of March 2024, the village has more than 280 households and over 800 inhabitants, and the dance is said to have begun in the Wanli reign of the Ming and to have flourished in the Qing. The origin of the name, the date of foundation and the administrative history are not recorded in the sources used here. VillageSettlementHorse-lantern dance Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Standard Village Villages and Communities Ailian Village A villagers' committee under Dongping Subdistrict Ailian Village belongs to Dongping Subdistrict, Lishui District. The district government's administrative divisions page lists it among the subdistrict's five villagers' committees, and it lay within the subdistrict's area when the 2018 provincial reply established it. Administrative divisionVillageAdministrative history unchecked Standard Village Villages and Communities Aimin Village A villagers' committee under Dongping Subdistrict Aimin Village belongs to Dongping Subdistrict, Lishui District. The district government's administrative divisions page lists it among the subdistrict's five villagers' committees, and it lay within the subdistrict's area when the 2018 provincial reply established it. Administrative divisionVillageAdministrative history unchecked Standard Surnames Surnames and Lineage Ancestral Halls and Surnames in the Traditional Villages Clues from Cangkou, Shishanxia and Zhujia Among the traditional villages of Lishui that can be identified by name, three are reported to retain ancestral halls: those of the Rui, Fan and Qiu families at Cangkou, of the Liu family at Shishanxia, and of the Zhu family at Zhujia. All the clues come from press reports, and this entry draws no conclusion on their dates or protection grades. SurnamesLineageAncestral halls Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Standard Village Villages and Communities Bailu Village A villagers' committee under Dongping Subdistrict Bailu Village belongs to Dongping Subdistrict, Lishui District. The district government's administrative divisions page lists it among the subdistrict's five villagers' committees, and it lay within the subdistrict's area when the 2018 provincial reply established it. Administrative divisionVillageAdministrative history unchecked Standard

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