Yusha County
Yusha County is a former county in imperial China, which was located in present-day Hubei, and included the present-day areas of Honghu and Xiantao. Its county seat during the Song Dynasty was Xindi Town, today the county seat of Honghu. In this era the county was visited and described by several notable Song poets, such as Su Shi, Lu You and Fan Chengda.
History
In 965, at the very beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, the county was re-established in the area of today's Honghu, with its county seat at Xindi Town, which today is the county seat of Honghu. In this period, the county was dissolved and re-established several times due to flooding. During the Southern Song Dynasty, marshland areas developed and Yusha County became a "land of fish and rice". During the Song era the area was visited by notable Song poets and scholars, including Su Shi, Fan Chengda, and Lu You who remarked on its farming and bounty of fish.During the Yuan Dynasty the county was, along with Jingling, one of the two counties making up the newly formed Mianyang Prefecture.
The area was flooded on average every once every 11 years during the Yuan Dynasty and once every 9 years during the Ming Dynasty.