Jiyuan

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Jiyuan is a sub-prefecture-level city in northwestern Henan province, People's Republic of China. It borders the prefecture-level cities of Jiaozuo and Luoyang to the east and southwest respectively, as well as the province of Shanxi to the north.

The sub-prefecture-level city of Jiyuan administers 5 subdistricts and 11 towns. Jiyuan is named after the Ji river whose source is said to be a spring located on the west of the city.

The famous Chinese mythology fable "The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains" may have come from this area. Mountains mentioned in this myth are Taihang and Wangwu.

Jiyuan was a county belonging to Jiaozuo City in the past, then it was divided from the city. The former Ji River—one of the ancient "Four Rivers", alongside the Yangtze, Huai, and Yellow Rivers—originated around Jiyuan, which was the source of its name, Chinese for "Source of the Ji". (Today, the Ji has been entirely subsumed by the Yellow River, which shifted to the bed of the Ji during its massive 1852 flood.) According to the latest archaeological findings...

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