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.

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Administrative history Place Names and Origins Administrative History of Lishui From county to district, and from towns to subdistricts Lishui was established as a county in the eleventh year of the Kaihuang era of the Sui (591 CE). It became a district of Nanjing in February 2013, and two rounds of town-to-subdistrict conversion, in July 2015 and May 2018, produced the present five subdistricts and three towns with 118 villages and communities. Administrative historyAdministrative division 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 Place names Place Names and Origins The Legend Behind the Name Hefeng A place-name legend by Shijiu Lake The town profile page on the district government website records a legend for the name of Hefeng Town: a phoenix, admiring the scenery of Shijiu Lake, came to rest on Qishan, and from this the name is said to derive. The page presents it expressly as legend, and this entry reproduces it as such rather than as fact. Place namesOrigin of place namesWater town Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Standard Survey Place Names and Origins The Traditional Village Lists of Lishui Twelve provincial entries identified by name, and two national ones Checked village by village against the lists of the provincial housing department, the Nanjing municipal construction commission and the district culture and tourism bureau, twelve traditional villages of Jiangsu in Lishui can be identified by name — four in the first batch, one in the third, four in the sixth, one in the seventh and two in the eighth — which agrees with the official total of twelve, alongside two Chinese traditional villages. The district bureau's reply gives five for the sixth batch where the municipal list gives four; both figures are set out here. Traditional villagesTraditional Village of JiangsuChinese traditional villages unchecked Long-form Survey Place Names and Origins Two Sets of Figures for Areas and Village Counts Conflicting wording on the Lishui District government website The Lishui district website gives the district's area in two ways, 1,064 sq km on the administrative divisions page and 1,067 sq km on the district profile page and in the profiles section introduction. Individual units also differ between those pages in rounded areas and in counting villagers' committees together with communities. Administrative divisionPlace-name survey unchecked Standard

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