Houguan county explained

Houguan County is a former county in Fujian Province, China that is now mostly part of Minhou County, Fuzhou.^[1] Established during the Eastern Han dynasty, it was dissolved soon after the founding of the Republic of China in 1912.

People

• Chen Menglei, Qing dynasty scholar and author
• Lin Xu, politician executed by the Qing dynasty during Empress Cixi's reign

Notes and References

1. Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China, p.241