Shiqiu Community

Overview

Shiqiu Community belongs to Shiqiu Subdistrict and is the seat of the subdistrict office. The district government's administrative divisions page gives Shiqiu Subdistrict an area of 116.47 km² with 6 residents' committees and 8 villagers' committees, and records the seat as "Shiqiu Residents' Committee". The subdistrict profile page counts the same units together as "14 villages and communities, of which 8 villages and 6 communities", agreeing with the itemised table.

The six residents' committees are Shiqiu, Tangdoucun, Mingjue, Guangming, Xietang and Shedong; the eight villagers' committees are Dongquan, Xiangyang, Sanxing, Tongxin, Sangyuanpu, Hengshan, Jiutang and Shangfang. Tangdoucun ends in the character for "village" yet is a residents' committee; the generic suffix does not match its actual tier, and this library records the official wording as it stands. The boundaries, household count and population of Shiqiu Community are not recorded in the sources used here.

The name of the subdistrict and supporting evidence at community level

An introduction published in September 2025 in the Shiqiu Subdistrict column of the district government website records that Shiqiu Subdistrict takes its name from the Shiqiu dam built in the Wanli reign of the Ming, and that more than thirty dragon lanterns of the types flowing dragon, flat dragon and carried dragon are preserved to the present in its villages and communities. The name Shiqiu dam also appears under the Shiqiu Subdistrict row in the district Civil Affairs Bureau's place-name cultural heritage notice, so the two corroborate each other and show that the name Shiqiu derives from the dam rather than from the community.

It should be noted that that column text is promotional in character and that its accounts of folk custom such as the dragon lanterns are summaries at subdistrict level that name no community; they therefore cannot be used to describe the folk custom of Shiqiu Community itself. The date of establishment and the extent of Shiqiu Community still have no source.

Points of doubt

• The residents' committee named Tangdoucun carries the character for "village" while several villagers' committees carry no suffix at all; the inconsistent wording is the official table's own and has not been rewritten.
• The extent, date of establishment and origin of the name of Shiqiu Community are not recorded in the sources used here.
• The Shiqiu Subdistrict column text is promotional material whose accounts of folk custom and landscape reach only to subdistrict level and name no community; no data for this community are entered from it.