Qianyang Ancient Town is the old core of Qiancheng in today's Hongjiang City, standing where the Wushui meets the Yuan river with water on three sides and a mountain behind. For centuries it administered this stretch of the Yuan valley as Qianyang County, and its 0.8 square kilometres of bluestone lanes keep the shape of a county seat, from the sites of four city gates to the old yamen and academy. The Furong Tower beside the water holds a corridor of more than a hundred steles engraved with the hands of canonical calligraphers. The complex entered the national key protected heritage list in 2013.
Qianyang administered this stretch of the Yuan valley for centuries, and its walls, gates and stele corridor record that rank. The paperwork left for the rail town of Huaihua in the 1970s, but the county seat came back next door.