Shannan Village

Traditional village listing

A Nanjing Daily report of 31 January 2024 states that the seventh batch of provincial traditional villages was released, adding three to the city, among them "Shannan Village, Honglan Town, Lishui", bringing the city's total of provincial traditional villages to 65. The "Honglan Town" in the report reproduces the former name; Honglan Town became Honglan Subdistrict in May 2018.

The gap between the report and the current name

The mismatch is worth recording: the seventh batch list was released in January 2024, whereas the reply abolishing Honglan Town and establishing Honglan Subdistrict was issued on 15 May 2018, so the "Honglan Town" of the report was already a name six years out of date when the report appeared. The article evidently kept the older form found in the list or in contributed material rather than correcting it against the divisions then in force.

The same situation arises elsewhere on this site: where lists of the seventh and eighth batches give the form "Honglan Town", it is reproduced as written, with the present affiliation noted in brackets.

The count of provincial traditional villages

Shannan Village's entry in the seventh batch forms part of the district's total of provincial traditional villages. A reply of the Lishui District Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau records "the district has two Chinese traditional villages and twelve provincial traditional villages". That reply is a working account of a competent department and its figure has a time point, so it must be cited with the year and is not valid indefinitely; Chinese traditional villages and provincial traditional villages are two separate lists and are not counted together.

Checked against the provincial traditional villages verified in this library, the figure of twelve corresponds to: Cangkou in Tangxi Village, Honglan Subdistrict, Lixiang in Shitouzhai Village, Baima Town, Shishanxia in Ruijia Village, Jingqiao Town and Zhujia in Zhangjia Village, Hefeng Town (first batch, four); Tai Village in Jingqiao Town, Luoshan in Hefeng Town and Yangjia Village in Sunjiaxiang Village, Hefeng Town (sixth batch, three); Shuijing and Shanshaxu in Jingqiao Town and Shannan Village in Honglan Subdistrict (seventh batch); and Shangzhuang in Shanggang Community, Honglan Subdistrict and Chenguo in Wucunqiao Village, Hefeng Town (eighth batch, two).

Two uncertainties attach to that check. First, the batch attribution of Shuijing and Shanshaxu in the seventh batch differs between this library's other records and the provincial housing department's list, so the batch of those two villages awaits checking. Second, the eighth batch was published after the time point of the district bureau's reply, so the figure of twelve does not include those two villages. Since two of the twelve checked above have a batch attribution awaiting verification, this entry draws no definite conclusion from the figure and records only the wording and time point of the reply.

Points of doubt

• The report gives only the town and the village name; the administrative village to which Shannan Village belongs, its date of founding and its surviving structures are not recorded.
• The standard form of the name "Shannan Village" and its administrative village still need checking; this library holds no formal document for the seventh batch and can rely only on the report.
• The figure of twelve provincial traditional villages in the reply of the district housing and urban-rural development bureau is a departmental account with a time point; when the names are checked one by one, the batch attribution of two villages of the seventh batch, Shuijing and Shanshaxu, shows differing readings, so the figure is not used here as a settled conclusion.