The Legend Behind the Name Hefeng

The record

The Hefeng Town profile page states: "It is said that a beautiful phoenix, admiring the scenery of Shijiu Lake, came to rest on Qishan, and from this the name Hefeng derives."

On its nature

The word "legend" is the page's own, indicating that the page does not treat the account as the conclusion of documentary scholarship. This entry records only the existence of the story and its source, and does not use it to infer the date the town was established or how the settlement took shape.

Points of doubt

• The document behind the story, whether gazetteer, genealogy or oral record, is not stated.
• Whether any account other than this one exists for the name is not recorded in the sources used here.
• This entry makes no inference about the position of Qishan relative to Shijiu Lake, nor about the precise spot where the phoenix is said to have alighted.