Poyang County

The area was known as Po under the Chu state during the Warring States period. Under the Qin, the area was organized as Poyang County () and placed under the administration of Jiujiang. Po was entrusted to the Yue leader Wu Rui. During the collapse of Qin, he allied first with Xiang Yu and then with Liu Bei, becoming successively the king of Hengshan and then Changsha. Under the Han, the area was known as Poyang and placed under the administration of Yuzhang. It kept the same name but changed its first character to the present one under the Western Han. During Eastern Han, the Yangtze River flowed farther north and Poyang constituted a wide and fertile lowland. Around , the Yangtze changed its course to the south and flooded the district which has ever since comprised Poyang Lake. Many of its people fled as refugees into neighboring districts. In 1957, the name of the county was changed to Boyang County, but in December 2003 the original name was restored. On May 27, 2014, Poyang County was designated as directly-controlled county by the provincial government as a part of a pilot program in Jiangxi Province. ==Administrative divisions==

Poyang County administers 14 towns and 20 rural townships. The county seat is the town of Poyang. Around 1998 the county had approximately 1 million people. • The town of Poyang had around 1998. • The Guantian Village Committee consists of the villages of Cao, Gao, and Xu. Before 1949 no intra-village marriages occurred in Gao Village. Before the Cultural Revolution there was one intra-village marriage, which was a zhaozhui marriage (a zhaozhui 招贅/-赘 marriage is a situation in which the groom lives with the bride's family), it was considered to have a stigma during the pre-Cultural Revolution time and still had some stigma in 1995 since local people believed that only extremely poor, helpless, hopeless, and parentless people entered zhaozhui marriages. Since the Cultural Revolution eight intra-village marriages occurred in Gao Village. At present, Yanling County has 14 towns and 15 townships. ;14 towns • Poyang () • Xiejiatian () • Shimenjie () • Sishilijie () • Youdunjie () • Tianfanjie () • Jinpanling () • Gaojialing () • Huanggang () • Shuanggang () • Guxiandu () • Raofeng () • Lefeng () • Raobu () ;15 townships • Houjiagang () • Lianhuashan () • Xiangshuitan () • Jiantianjie () • Zhegang () • Yaquehu () • Yinbaohu () • Youcheng () • Zhuhu () • Baishazhou () • Tuanlin () • Changzhou () • Miaoqian () • Lianhu () • Lutian () ==Geography==

Province Yang county is located in east longitude 116°to 117°23' 45" 06' 15 ', north latitude 28°46' 26, and 29°42' 03", between the north border with penzer county and east to county in anhui province; The border with yugan, wannian; East in jingdezhen, leping neighbours; With duchang county are linked by mountains and rivers and northwest. By 2014, the province Yang county jurisdiction covers an area of 4215 square kilometers, the water area of 948.7 square kilometers, accounting for 22.5%, therefore has the "China lake city" reputation. The northern portion of the county is mountainous, while Lake Poyang can be found in the west. The center of the county is home to the Lake Poyang Plains. ==Climate==

The Jiujing Highway passes through the northern portion of the county. In total, there are 209 provincial roads in the county. The county is served by Poyang railway station on the Jiujiang–Quzhou railway. ==Famous people==

• Hong Mai • Jiang Kui ==References==