Pingshun County is the latest county in the history of Changzhi City, which is related to a peasant uprising. The area is rugged, with dense forests and dangerous terrain. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, political corruption made the people miserable. In order to resist the tyranny of the Ming Dynasty, farmers in Qingyang Mountain took more than 50,000 hungry people, led by Andy Chen, and occupied four states of Shandong, Ze, Liao and Qin. The imperial court was in a state of panic, and the government forces in Shanxi, Hebei and Henan provinces 150000 heard the news and came to encircle and encircle. The battle was very bitter. In the eighth year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1529), after the fire of Andy Chen Uprising was extinguished, the military adviser of Ming Dynasty wrote to Xia Yan to set up a county government in Qingyang Mountain to strengthen the rule and eliminate future troubles. Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty greatly appreciated this and named Pingshun County with the meaning of "smooth and eternal life", and set Changzhi County with the meaning of "long-term stability", and Luzhou was promoted to Lu 'an Prefecture. In September of the eighth year of Jiajing (1529), Lucheng County 16 Li, Huguan County 10 Li, Licheng County's 5 Li and * * 3/kloc-0 Li were within the territory of Pingshun County, and county towns were established under Qingyang Mountain. Xia Yan, a court official who suppressed the Andy Chen Uprising, was very satisfied with his victory. He wrote poems in Pingshun tablet carving, and left handwriting at Hongtiguan and Yuxiangguan.
In the twenty-ninth year of Qing Qianlong (1764), the county was removed as a township, which was restored in the first year of the Republic of China (19 12) and abolished in the fourth year of the Republic of China. This move aroused the dissatisfaction of the docile people, and under the leadership of the famous gentry Shi Huang, a movement to restore the county was launched, which was resumed in the sixth year of the Republic of China. 194 1 Establish Pingshun (south) and Pingshun (north) counties. 1958165438+1On October 5th, Huguan and Pingshun counties merged into Huguan County. The government agency is located in the original Pingshun County. On July 20 1959, Huguan County and Heping Shun County resumed.
Pingshun County, built on the mountain, is a small mountain town of Shangdang. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a magistrate who said that "a city is as small as a village".
It is said that when the magistrate of a county is trying a case, he can pick the jujube on the mountain behind him by turning his head.