The origin of the name Qian'an?

It was named Qian'an County during the period of confrontation between Liao, Song and Jin. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the Khitan people became stronger and established the Khitan Kingdom in 916 (renamed the Liao Kingdom in 947). In subsequent years, they carried out large-scale plundering of surrounding ethnic groups and continued to invade the south, often plundering the northern and central areas of present-day Hebei Province. . For the captured Han people, the Tang system was roughly adopted and prefectures and counties were established. Some prefectures and counties with the same name as the Hebei region were set up in the Liao Kingdom. Most of the prefectures and counties built city walls to gather the captured Han and Bohai people and engage in agricultural production. , so that they were ruled and enslaved by the Khitan nobles, but they still preserved the living customs of the Han people. In the winter of October of the sixth year of Taizu of the Liao Dynasty (913), he occupied Pingzhou (the state is now located in Lulong County), and used Pingzhou as a rear base to launch several large-scale plundering wars against Youzhou, Dingzhou, etc. , captured the children of the population, moved to the Liao Kingdom, and settled the population robbed from Dingzhou in Pingzhou. Among them, the people looted from Anxi County were resettled 20 miles northeast of today's Qian'an County, and the name of Anxi County was still used. Anxi County, Dingzhou, is the area around today's Dingzhou City. It was the territory of Zhongshan during the Warring States Period. It was still Zhongshan during the Han Dynasty. It was Anxi during the Eastern Han Dynasty. Dingzhou was established in the Tang Dynasty. Anxi was the seat of the state capital. Anxi was the seat of the state capital during the Five Dynasties. Xi and Yi counties still belong to Dingzhou, and the state is still in peace and order. In the later period of the conflict between Liao and Song, the Jurchen tribe gradually became stronger, established the Jin Kingdom in 1115, and continuously attacked the Liao Kingdom. The Liao Kingdom was defeated and Pingzhou was also occupied by the Jin Kingdom. The Jin State still adopted the state and county system, but it reformed the place names, changing the counties of the same name built by the Liao State from the people plundered from the Central Plains to different names. At this time, Anxi County was changed to Qian'an County. "History of the Jin Dynasty·Geographical Records" records: "The old city of Qian'an County, which was originally a branch of the Han Dynasty, was built by the people of Anxi County who were captured by the Liao Dynasty. Because it was named Anxi, the name was changed in the seventh year of Dading." The reign of Emperor Shizong of the Jin Dynasty was Ding, in the seventh year of Dading (AD 1167), Anxi County was renamed Qian'an County, and the county seat was moved to the current county seat. The name Qian'an County means that the word "Qian" means "migration" and "relocation", and the word "An" takes the first character of "Anxi County". This naming not only reflects the changing relationship between Anxi County and Qian'an County, but also distinguishes it from the original name.

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