Pinghe County

Pinghe County is a county of the prefecture-level city of Zhangzhou, in southern Fujian province, PRC, bordering Guangdong province to the west.

Administrative Division
The administrative centre or seat of Pinghe County is Xiaoxi (小溪镇).

Towns (镇, zhen)
Most of Pinghe's old People's communes, after spending the 80s and even 90s as Townships, have been upgraded to Towns. There are ten towns:
 * Xiaoxi (小溪 Sió-khe)
 * Wenfeng (文峰 Bûn-hong)
 * Shange (山格 Soaⁿ-keeh)
 * Nansheng (南胜 Lâm-sèng)
 * Banzai (坂仔 Póaⁿ-á)
 * Anhou (Mandarin 安厚 Ānhòu, Hokkien 庵后 Am-āu)
 * Daxi (大溪 Tōa-khe)
 * Jiufeng (九峰 Kiú-hong)
 * Xiazhai (Mandarin 霞寨 Xiázhài, Hokkien 下寨 Ēe-chēe)
 * Luxi (芦溪 Lô͘-khe)

Townships (乡, xiang)
There are five townships:


 * Wuzhai (五寨 Gō͘-chēe)
 * Guoqiang (国强 Kok-kiâng, originally 高坑 Ko-kheng)
 * Qiling (崎岭 Kiā-niá)
 * Changle (长乐 Tióⁿ-lo̍h)
 * Xiufeng (秀峰 Siù-hong)

Climate
Notable people: Chen, yi fei( 陳義飛 )： scholar and senior official of Ming dynasty( AD 1368-AD 1644 )

Lai, ching te( 賴清德 )： president of Republic of China, president born in Taiwan, his great-great grandfather migrated to Taiwan from Ping he county.

Economy
Pinghe County is famous for its pomelos.

Tulou
Numerous Fujian Tulou, earth buildings of round, rectangular and other shapes, can be found within Pinghe County, primarily in its western part (viz., various villages of Luxi, Xiazhai, Jiufeng and Daxi Towns). One of them, the Xishuang Lou (西爽楼), located in Xi'an Village a few kilometers north of Xiazhai town center, has been described by some researchers as the "largest of the rectangular [tulou] in existence". Unfortunately, only parts of the compound have survived to this day.