Niangziguan at the Jingxing Pass
A Ming pass where the Jingxing road crosses the Taihang: the 1542 castle and its two gates, the springs and waterfall in the gorge, and the princess of the legend behind its name.
Yangquan.
Yangquan is a prefecture-level city in eastern Shanxi, bordering Hebei to the east, on the eastern edge of the loess plateau, where mountains take up most of the ground. The Hutuo River runs through the north of its territory and the Mian through the built-up area. The city dates its founding to 4 May 1947, when it was set up inside the original Pingding County; in September 1983 Pingding and Yu counties passed to it. It governs three districts and two counties, and had 1,318,505 residents in 2020. Coal reserves of 10.4 billion tonnes gave it the name hometown of coal and iron, and the 1906 Zhengtai railway made it an industrial centre.
Yangquan
Places
Niangziguan
A Ming pass at the Jingxing mouth of the Taihang in Pingding County, Yangquan, with a rebuilt 1542 castle, springs and a waterfall, and a princess's name.
Guguan
A pass of the Taihang frontier, recorded in the Qing as a garrison with a company commander; the sources read here give no more than that.
Zangshan
A shrine east of Zangshan village in Changchi town, Yu County, Yangquan, listed provincially in 1996 and nationally in 2013, and the mountain that keeps the orphan story.
Shinao Mountain
A hill above Yangquan, the coal and iron city of eastern Shanxi; the sources read here describe the city, its mines and its memorial rather than the hill.