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Every entry in chronological order, for a quick check of what has and has not been written. Entries without a year come last.

Published entries 　122

Year	Entry	Type	Category	Depth
Prehistory · Before the county · 4 entries
c. 9200 BCE	The Huifeng Mountain Hominid Fossil Site A cave site attested only by a human temporal bone and animal fossils	Article	Archaeology	Standard
c. 9200 BCE	The Fauna and Dating of the Shenxian Cave Site An early Holocene fauna, dated to about 11,000 years ago	Article	Archaeology	Standard
c. 9200 BCE	The Discovery of the Shenxian Cave Site on Huifeng Mountain A human temporal bone found in 1977, in deposits dated to about 11,000 years ago	Article	Archaeology	Standard
c. 3000 BCE	The Neolithic Remains at the Shishan Site A district-protected site whose list entry gives only period and level	Article	Archaeology	Skeleton
Pre-Qin and Six Dynasties · Before the county · 8 entries
c. 1000 BCE	Rescue Excavation of Mound Tombs in Lishui Eight teams along an expressway route in 2005, and the usual finds	Article	Archaeology	Standard
538 BCE	Chu Destroys Lai, 538 BCE Chu attacks Wu and destroys Lai, that is the Laishui; Wu moves its settlement to Lingping	Event	Annals	Standard
529 BCE	Chu Takes Lingping, 529 BCE Chu sends Su Nai against Wu, takes Lingping and renames it Pingling	Event	Annals	Standard
506 BCE	Wu Yuan Burns Gucheng, 506 BCE Wu sends Wu Yuan against Chu; the stronghold of Gucheng is burned and the land returns to Wu	Event	Annals	Standard
221 BCE	Liyang County Established, 221 BCE Qin renames Jinling as Moling and establishes Liyang County under Zhang Commandery	Event	Annals	Standard
210 BCE	The First Emperor Cuts the Ground and Opens the Qinhuai, 210 BCE The gazetteer says the emperor, on an eastern tour, had the ground cut because of the royal aura at Jinling, and later ages named the water the Qinhuai River	Event	Annals	Standard
329	Wang Yunzhi Takes Su Yi at Liyang, 329 CE The general Wang Yunzhi captures Su Yi in Liyang, and the gazetteer notes that taxes were remitted after long fighting	Event	Annals	Standard
589Sui	Danyang Commandery Abolished and Jiangzhou Established, 589 CE The commandery is replaced by Jiangzhou, and Liyang is placed under it	Event	Annals	Standard
Sui and Tang · 591–959 · 6 entries
591Sui	Lishui County Established, 591 CE Carved out of Liyang and the former Danyang lands, under Jiangzhou	Event	Annals	Standard
598Sui	Lishui County Absorbs Liyang, 598 CE Liyang County is abolished and its territory merged into Lishui	Event	Annals	Standard
608Sui	Jiangzhou Replaced by Danyang Commandery, 608 CE Jiangzhou becomes Danyang Commandery, and Lishui is placed under it	Event	Annals	Standard
620Tang	Yangzhou Established and Liyang County Restored, 620 CE Lishui and Jiangning are made into Yangzhou, eastern Lishui is separated off as Liyang, and Fu Gongshi encamps at Lishui	Event	Annals	Standard
626Tang	Lishui Transferred to Xuanzhou, 626 CE Yangzhou moves its seat to Jiangdu and Lishui passes to Xuanzhou, that is the present Ningguo Prefecture	Event	Annals	Standard
891Tang	Sun Ru Encamps at Lishui, 891 CE Sun Ru encamps at Lishui while attacking Xuanzhou, and Yang Xingmi sends Li Fu to break him in a night raid	Event	Annals	Standard
Song and Yuan · 960–1367 · 12 entries
975Song	Cao Bin's Officer Defeats the Jiangnan Army at Lishui, 975 CE Tian Qinzuo won an action in Lishui in the first month; Li Yu surrendered within the year	Event	Annals	Standard
1018Song	Shengzhou Renamed Jiangning Prefecture, 1018 CE Lishui passed under the new prefecture	Event	Annals	Standard
1023Song	Cinnabar Mining at Lishui Abolished, 1023 CE The levy ended in the sixth month on the advice of Wang Qinruo	Event	Annals	Standard
1125Song	A Plea to Turn Three Lakes into Polders, 1125 CE Lu Xiang asked to convert the Shijiu, Gucheng and Danyang lakes into polder fields	Event	Annals	Standard
1129Song	Jin Forces Take Lishui, 1129 CE The county defender Pan Zhen died; that year Jiangning Prefecture became Jiankang Prefecture	Event	Annals	Standard
1153Song	Yongfeng Polder Granted to Qin Hui, 1153 CE The gazetteer's own note on why the entry was included although prefectural records do not name Lishui	Event	Annals	Standard
1165Song	Yongfeng Polder Granted to the Dutongsi, 1165 CE The grant was made in the eighth month, on the same ground as the entry for 1153	Event	Annals	Standard
1261Song	Collection of Lishui's Grain Tax Suspended, 1261 CE The suspension was ordered in the sixth month; a first one had been recorded in 1260	Event	Annals	Standard
1275Yuan	Yuan Forces Take Jiankang and Lishui Surrenders, 1275 CE Alahan advanced through Dongba; the Tongguan commanders Bei Bao and Hu Yanqi died attacking Lishui	Event	Annals	Long-form
1281Yuan	Gold-Washing Administration Set Up at Jiankang, 1281 CE Five thousand Lishui households were made gold-washing households; the levy was abolished in 1287	Event	Annals	Standard
1295Yuan	Lishui Raised from County to Zhou, 1295 CE Lishui Zhou ranked as a middle zhou, with a darughachi above the prefect	Event	Annals	Standard
1329Yuan	Jiankang Circuit Renamed Jiqing Circuit, 1329 CE Lishui passed under the renamed circuit	Event	Annals	Standard
Ming and Qing · 1368–1911 · 30 entries
1369Ming	Lishui Zhou Reduced to a County in 1369 The Yuan-era prefecture becomes a county again, and a county school is ordered	Event	Annals	Standard
1385Ming	The Tax and Corvée Registers of 1385 Households graded into three classes, corvée verified against the registers	Event	Annals	Standard
1390Ming	A Reserve Granary Established in 1390 Granaries set up against famine, and grain bought in with paper money	Event	Annals	Standard
1393Ming	The Yanzhi River Cut Through the Hills in the Ming A canal for grain transport, with a rock left standing as a bridge	Event	Annals	Long-form
c. 1393Ming	Dating the Yanzhi River and Its Method of Excavation Two start years, two durations, and one tradition	Article	Gazetteer Selections	Standard
c. 1400	The Remains and Working Methods of the Qiuhu Mountain Quarry A municipally protected site recorded as Ming	Article	Archaeology	Skeleton
1403Ming	Sluices and a Dam Set Up at Guangtong in 1403 Works at Guangtong, Yanzhi Hill and the mouth of Gucheng Lake, with an officer to manage them	Event	Annals	Standard
1425Ming	Qi Tai's Kin Pardoned in 1425 The family of a minister who died in the Jingnan Campaign recovers its confiscated property	Event	Annals	Long-form
1491Ming	Gaochun County Detached from Lishui in 1491 The southwestern part of Lishui becomes a separate county, and the two are administered apart	Event	Annals	Standard
1508Ming	Zhang Zheng Donates Grain in the Famine of 1508 A Lishui resident gives a thousand shi of grain after drought and dearth	Event	Annals	Standard
1512Ming	Guangtong Dam Built in 1512 Raised three zhang, two sluices sealed and their opening forbidden	Event	Annals	Long-form
1523Ming	The Great Drought and Famine of 1523 People flee north and south, and a vice minister is sent to relieve the county	Event	Annals	Standard
1524Ming	An Epidemic in Lishui in 1524 A great sickness through spring and summer, with the dead lying along the roads	Event	Annals	Standard
1525Ming	The Biaozhong Shrine to Qi Tai, 1525 The magistrate Wang Congshan asks that Qi Tai be sacrificed to in Lishui	Event	Annals	Standard
1541Ming	Endowment Fields for Zhongshan Academy in 1541 The magistrate Xie Ting endows the academy with land in the twentieth year of the Jiajing era	Event	Annals	Standard
1558Ming	Zeng Zhen Builds the Stone Wall of Lishui, 1558 A stone wall for the county town three years after pirates nearly took it	Event	Annals	Long-form
1571Ming	Liu Yinglei Measures the Fields and Removes the Flying Grain, 1571 A clear survey of the fields and the removal of more than four thousand shi of shifted tax	Event	Annals	Long-form
1574Ming	Fu Yingzhen Sets Up the Community Compact, 1574 Disputes to be judged first by the compact, and a year without litigation	Event	Annals	Long-form
1588Ming	Famine and the Building of Fengxian Polder, 1588 A famine in which people ate one another; polder banks built with treasury silver	Event	Annals	Standard
1595Ming	A Flood Breaches the Polders, 1595 In the sixth month a jiao flood broke the polders; Fengxian Polder alone survived	Event	Annals	Standard
1606Ming	A Pagoda Built to Quell an Omen, 1606 A red light over the county's north-west; the magistrate Xu Liangyan raised the Yongshou Temple Pagoda there	Event	Annals	Standard
1611Ming	An Earthquake in 1611 Recorded on the sixteenth day of the tenth month; the gazetteer has only one line	Event	Annals	Standard
1622Ming	Lishui's Grain Tax Commuted to Silver in Perpetuity, 1622 The prefect of Yingtian and the county magistrate petitioned; the commutation was granted	Event	Annals	Standard
1628Ming	Polder Banks Built below Shizi Mountain, 1628 The magistrate Zeng Jiuyi petitioned for the work; more than three thousand zhang of bank	Event	Annals	Standard
1640Ming	The Great Famine of 1640 No seed grain left; an earthquake on the twelfth night of the tenth month; arrears remitted	Event	Annals	Standard
1645Qing	Lishui Surrenders Intact as the Qing Cross the Yangtze, 1645 The magistrate fled and the dianshi led the surrender; in the twelfth month rebels burned the county hall	Event	Annals	Long-form
1654Qing	The County Hall Rebuilt, 1654 Since the burning of 1645 the magistrate had sat among rubble under reed matting	Event	Annals	Standard
1655Qing	Compiling the Record of Equalised Corvée, 1655 The magistrate Min Pailu re-examined the wards and apportioned corvée, printing the register for the whole county	Event	Annals	Standard
1658Qing	Grain Tax Commuted by Imperial Order, 1658 Commutation ordered in the third month, following a petition by gentry and commoners in 1655	Event	Annals	Standard
c. 1662Qing	Selections from the Kangxi Lishui County Gazetteer, Volume One (Annals) Five events in the history of Lishui from an annalistic gazetteer	Article	Gazetteer Selections	Long-form
Republican Period · 1912–1949 · 7 entries
1937Republic of China	Monument to the Victims of the Japanese Bombing of Lishui Commemorating the civilians killed when Japanese aircraft bombed the county town on 29 November 1937	Site	Modern Lishui	Standard
1938Republic of China	The New Fourth Army Enters Lishui Advancing from southern Anhui into southern Jiangsu in May 1938, after which Lixiang served in turn as a regimental headquarters	Event	Modern Lishui	Standard
1938Republic of China	Lixiang Revolutionary Site Headquarters of the Party, government and military in southern Jiangsu during the War of Resistance	Site	Modern Lishui	Standard
1941Republic of China	Southern Jiangsu Party, Government and Military Organs Move to Lixiang After the Tangma Battle of November 1941 the region's leading organs moved to Lixiang and its neighbourhood	Event	Modern Lishui	Standard
1943Republic of China	The Southern Jiangsu Counter-Diehard Campaign The New Fourth Army's counter-attack of April 1943, of which the Huifeng Mountain–Beijingxiang action was the engagement fought in Lishui	Event	Modern Lishui	Standard
1943Republic of China	Huifeng Mountain Counter-Diehard Campaign Site The battlefield of the Huifeng Mountain–Beijingxiang action of April 1943, in the fifth municipal batch	Site	Modern Lishui	Standard
1949Republic of China	The Liberation of Lishui and the Introduction of the District System After the Yangtze crossing of April 1949 Lishui was organised as a district under the Zhenjiang Prefecture of the Southern Jiangsu Administrative Office	Event	Modern Lishui	Standard
Contemporary · since 1950 · 5 entries
1959Contemporary	Zhongshan Martyrs' Cemetery A cemetery for revolutionary martyrs, built at Fengxiangling in Jingqiao in October 1959	Site	Modern Lishui	Standard
2013Contemporary	The Nanjing–Hangzhou High-Speed Railway Opens Opened throughout on 1 July 2013, with Lishui station in Dongping Subdistrict	Event	Modern Lishui	Standard
2013Contemporary	Lishui County Abolished, Lishui District Established State Council approval in 2013 created Lishui District of Nanjing, ending 1,422 years of county government	Event	Annals	Standard
2018Contemporary	Three Towns Converted into Subdistricts On 15 May 2018 the provincial government approved the abolition of Dongping, Honglan and Shiqiu towns and the creation of matching subdistricts	Event	Modern Lishui	Standard
2020Contemporary	The Qinhuai River Waterway Regulation Project Passes Completion Inspection On 29 December 2020 the Honglan lock and six bridges on the Shijiu Lake–Pengfu section passed inspection	Event	Modern Lishui	Standard
No year · 50 entries
	Administrative Division Changes after 1949 From the district system to the county's reconstitution as a district, and the towns made into subdistricts	Article	Administrative History	Long-form
the Song dynasty	Changle Bridge A three-arch stone bridge in Changle Village, Dongping Subdistrict	Site	Heritage Sites	Standard
	County Status and the County Seat A county, a prefecture and a county again, and what the sources record about the seat	Article	Administrative History	Standard
the War of Resistance period	Dajin Mountain War of Resistance Site A wartime site in Baima Town whose protection status is unverified	Site	Modern Lishui	Skeleton
the Qing dynasty	Fan Ancestral Hall A Qing ancestral hall in Cangkou Village, Honglan Subdistrict	Site	Heritage Sites	Skeleton
Contemporary	Fangbian Reservoir A medium-sized reservoir in Lishui District	Site	Heritage Sites	Standard
Southern Tang	Han Xizai's Reading Terrace A Southern Tang reading terrace on Wuxiang Mountain	Site	Heritage Sites	Standard
	How Lishui Became a County From the county's founding in 591 CE to its reconstitution as a district in 2013	Article	Administrative History	Long-form
the Song dynasty	Huangjia Ancient Well A Song dynasty well in Huangjia Village, Hefeng Town	Site	Heritage Sites	Skeleton
the Qing dynasty	Jinjing Spring A Qing well at Baishiguan Village, Jingqiao Town	Site	Heritage Sites	Skeleton
	Lishui in the Republican Period The sources do not cover it systematically; the sequence of jurisdictions remains to be filled in	Article	Administrative History	Standard
	Lishui under the Ming and Qing Reduced to a county, the loss of Gaochun, and Jiangning Prefecture under the Qing	Article	Administrative History	Long-form
	Lishui under the Song and Yuan From Shengzhou to Jiangning, Jiankang and finally Jiqing Circuit	Article	Administrative History	Long-form
	Lishui under the Sui and Tang From the founding of the county in 591 to its return to Shengzhou at the end of the Tang	Article	Administrative History	Long-form
Ming dynasty	Liu Ancestral Hall, Jingqiao A Ming ancestral hall in Shishanxia Village, Jingqiao Town	Site	Heritage Sites	Standard
the War of Resistance period	Lixiang Revolutionary Site Buildings Wartime buildings at Lixiang in Baima Town, in the third batch of district-level protected sites	Site	Modern Lishui	Standard
	Polders and the Guangtong Dam in Lishui From abolishing the three lakes to sealing the two sluices	Article	Gazetteer Selections	Long-form
Ming dynasty	Putang Bridge A Ming stone arch bridge over the Putang River in Honglan Subdistrict	Site	Heritage Sites	Skeleton
the Qing dynasty	Qiu Ancestral Hall A Qing ancestral hall in Cangkou Village, Honglan Subdistrict	Site	Heritage Sites	Skeleton
Ming dynasty	Qiuhu Mountain Quarry Ming quarry remains at Qiuhu Mountain, Yongyang Subdistrict	Site	Heritage Sites	Skeleton
the Qing dynasty	Rui Ancestral Hall, Honglan A Qing ancestral hall in Cangkou Village, Honglan Subdistrict	Site	Heritage Sites	Standard
	Selections from the Annals: Late Ming and Early Qing Three reversals in the commutation of the grain tax, and the record of the change of dynasty	Article	Gazetteer Selections	Standard
	Selections from the Annals: Ming Taxation, granaries, waterworks and town defences, year by year	Article	Gazetteer Selections	Standard
	Selections from the Annals: Pre-Qin to the Six Dynasties The entries of the Kangxi gazetteer's annalistic volume before the county was founded	Article	Gazetteer Selections	Standard
	Selections from the Annals: Song and Yuan Polders, warfare and two changes of dynasty	Article	Gazetteer Selections	Standard
	Selections from the Annals: Sui and Tang The year the county was founded, and the changes of superior authority under two dynasties	Article	Gazetteer Selections	Standard
the Neolithic	Shishan Site A Neolithic site at Shishan, Shiqiu Subdistrict	Site	Heritage Sites	Skeleton
Ming dynasty	Song Ying's Tomb A Ming tomb at Tuanshan, Wushan, Zhetang Subdistrict	Site	Heritage Sites	Standard
Date undetermined	Source of the Qinhuai River A district-protected site at Donglu Mountain, Yongyang Subdistrict	Site	Heritage Sites	Skeleton
	Table of Administrative Changes by Dynasty Administrative units and jurisdictions from 591 to 2013	Article	Administrative History	Standard
	Taxation and Corvée in Ming and Qing Lishui The single-whip method, land survey and hidden quotas, and the commutation of the grain tax	Article	Gazetteer Selections	Long-form
	The Five Surviving Editions of the Lishui County Gazetteer Wanli, Shunzhi, Kangxi, Qianlong and Guangxu — sequence, extent, and disagreements in the catalogues	Article	Gazetteer Selections	Long-form
	The Naming of the Yanzhi River and Yanzhi Hill 'The rock cut was red' against 'it lies at Yanzhi Hill' — which came first	Article	Gazetteer Selections	Standard
	The Origin of the Name Lishui The sound shifts proposed for Lai, Li, Lai and Li, and where the accounts disagree	Article	Gazetteer Selections	Long-form
Ming dynasty	The Stele Recording the Zhongshan Academy's Endowed Fields and Buildings A Ming stele in Zhuangyuan Fang Park	Site	Heritage Sites	Standard
Hongwu period of the Ming	Tiansheng Bridge A stone left in place when the Yanzhi River was cut	Site	Heritage Sites	Standard
the Qing dynasty	Wei Ancestral Hall, Shiqiu A Qing ancestral hall in Weijiacun, Shiqiu Subdistrict	Site	Heritage Sites	Standard
the Western Zhou to Spring and Autumn period	Weijiacun Mound Tombs Western Zhou to Spring and Autumn mound tombs in Weijiacun, Jingqiao Town	Site	Heritage Sites	Standard
Southern Dynasties	Wuxiang Temple A Southern Dynasties temple on Wuxiang Mountain	Site	Heritage Sites	Standard
Ming dynasty	Wuxiang Temple Cliff Inscriptions Ming stone inscriptions in the Wuxiang Mountain scenic area, Honglan Subdistrict	Site	Heritage Sites	Skeleton
the Qing dynasty	Xunxian Temple A Qing temple in Guanqiantou Village, Jingqiao Town	Site	Heritage Sites	Skeleton
the Qing dynasty	Yan Ancestral Hall A Qing ancestral hall in Aiyuan Village, Lishui Development Zone	Site	Heritage Sites	Standard
the Qing dynasty	Yang Ancestral Hall, Hefeng A Qing ancestral hall in Yangjia Village, Hefeng Town	Site	Heritage Sites	Standard
Hongwu period of the Ming	Yanzhi River A Ming canal at Honglan Subdistrict	Site	Heritage Sites	Standard
the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period	Yiqidun Mound A Spring and Autumn or Warring States tomb in Zhongyang Village, Hefeng Town	Site	Heritage Sites	Standard
Ming dynasty	Yongchang Bridge A Ming bridge on Wangjing Street, Yongyang Subdistrict	Site	Heritage Sites	Skeleton
Ming dynasty	Yongshou Temple Pagoda A Ming pagoda in Baota Park, Yongyang Subdistrict	Site	Heritage Sites	Standard
the Qing dynasty	Zhao Ancestral Hall A Qing ancestral hall in Guotangtou Village, Honglan Subdistrict	Site	Heritage Sites	Standard
Contemporary	Zhongshan Reservoir A medium-sized reservoir on the upper Yigan River	Site	Heritage Sites	Standard
the Qing dynasty	Zhu Ancestral Hall, Hefeng A Qing ancestral hall in Zhujia Village, Hefeng Town	Site	Heritage Sites	Standard

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