Pingliang State, Zhongqing Prefecture, is a city within Shan Country that doesn't quite fit in with other cities.
This becomes clear just from the style of its architecture. Cities in Shan Country are mostly built with brick and stone, simple and substantial, rough and solid; however, the buildings here are primarily wooden, extremely intricate, bearing the essence of Anhe's water towns.
If it belonged to Anhe Country, Pingliang would undoubtedly be a typical southern city.
The whole of Pingliang State is surrounded by mountains on three sides and water on one, a typical basin terrain; the mountains on three sides are close to other prefectures of Shan Country, while the waterside faces Anhe Country. From a geographical point of view, it is natural for the cultural traditions to be close to those of Anhe.
