Haeju - Kaishu

A town in the Yanhu District of Yuncheng City, southwest of Shanxi Province, China. Population 47,000 (2011). Xie County was once located here, and it was the administrative center of Xiezhou from the Five Dynasties to the Qing Dynasty. In 1958, Anyi County and Xie County merged to form Yuncheng County, which was elevated to Yuncheng City in 1983. Historically, Xiezhou is known for the rock salt extracted from the Xie Pond, called Xiezhou Salt, and its extraction began in the Yin and Zhou dynasties. Until salt production in the coastal areas became popular, Xiezhou was the number one producer in the country, and possession of this region had great economic and political significance. Guan Yu, famous in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, was born here, and there is a ancestral temple of Guandi. Of the Guandi Temples scattered throughout China, the one here is the largest.

[Motohide Akiyama, Editorial Department, October 19, 2017]

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中国、山西(さんせい)省南西部、運城(うんじょう)市塩湖(えんこ)区にある鎮。人口4万7000（2011）。かつてはここに解県が置かれ、五代より清(しん)まで解州の治所であった。1958年、安邑(あんゆう)県と解県が合併し運城県が生まれ、1983年運城市に昇格した。解州は歴史的には解州塩とよばれる解池からとれる岩塩で知られ、その採取は殷(いん)・周時代から始まる。その後も海岸地帯での製塩が盛んになるまで、国内で第一の産地で、この地域の領有は経済的、政治的に大きな意味をもった。『三国志演義』で有名な関羽(かんう)はここの生まれで、関帝廟(かんていびょう)の祖廟がある。中国各地に点在する関帝廟のうち、同地のものがもっとも面積が広い。

［秋山元秀・編集部　2017年10月19日］

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