Abstract:
As regards the naming of the Huchi Park, Yan Shigu believed in his notes that it ought to be “the county of Anding in Zhongshan state”. According to a comprehensive analysis of relative historical records, Yan was obviously wrong for what we know as the Huchi Park was actually the county of Anming, located around the county of Huating, Gansu province, at the source of the Heihe River, namely the Nashui River in ancient times, a tribute of the Jinghe River. As for the origin of the Huchi Park, according to related historical records and local chronicles, the name came from the Heihe River originated from the county of Huating as a tribute of the Jinghe River, usually called the Nahe River and also the Hutuo River in ancient times. The god of water addressed in “the elegiac address at Yatuo” was contributed at the Nashui River, that is, the Hutuo River, but his shrine was not there but the whole of reaches of the Jinghe River. This is because the mouth of the Nahe River was very close to the Zhidang River, another tribute of the Jinghe River, which originated from around the Qiutou village of Zhengning county, called Yaoceqiu in ancient times. Yaoceqiu and Chaonaqiu were the two holy places which the state of Qin “imprecated the state of Chu”.