Jinxi County

Jinxi County (simplified Chinese: 金溪县; traditional Chinese: 金溪縣; pinyin: Jīnxī Xiàn) is a county of Jiangxi in the People's Republic of China. It is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Fuzhou. Jinxi is the hometown of Lu Xiangshan (陆象山), a famous educator and thinker in the Southern Song Dynasty. He was highly honored in Chinese history as well as one of China's top ten thinkers. Jinxi has nurtured many famous figures, including Wei Su (危素), a famous historian in the Yuan Dynasty, Gong Tingxian (龚廷贤), a great medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty and Cai Shangxiang (蔡上翔), an outstanding scholar in the Qing Dynasty. Zhou Jianping (周建屏), the commander of the Red Tenth Army and one of the founders of Mingzhegan Revolution Base. It has boasted two zhuangyuan, three bangyan and 242 jinshi since Jinxi County was founded. Jinxi is the core zone of Linchuan culture as well as a fundamental part of Gan culture. Jinxi County was founded in the fifth year of Chunhua of the Northern Song Dynasty (994 CE). Renowned for its silver smelting site in the Tang Dynasty, the output of gold and silver in the ancient time and the golden streams running through the mountains, it was named the "golden stream." Some silver smelting relic sites and relevant inscriptions which were the earliest physically written record in ancient China's mining and metallurgy have still remained in the county. It used to be an important pottery and porcelain production base in the Song Dynasty, so a folk saying goes, "First Xiaopi Kiln, then Jingdezhen."