What is the history of Tongzhou, Beijing?

There is Kuo (huǒ) County in the southeast of Tongzhou, Beijing, but some people read it as "Guo County". Maybe Kuo Kuo is a little bit out of the way, so they read half of it.

"Kuo Kuo" in the Xinhua Dictionary: place name, in Tongzhou, Beijing. "Kuo Kuo" is explained as the name of an ancient water, the name of an ancient county. The "ancient county name" refers to Kuoxian Town in Tongzhou District, Beijing. At the same time, it is an ancient city in the eastern part of Beijing with a history of 2,000 years. It was named after the county where it was once located.

During the Han Dynasty, today's Kuoxian Town was called Huocun. During the Liao Taiping period (1021-1031), a county was established here, and its county seat was located in Huocun. Because it is located in the south of Kuo Kuo water, the ancient mountain north and south of the water is yin, so it is called Kuo Kuo yin county, and Huocun is also renamed Kuo Kuo yin town. In the 13th year of Yuan Yuan (1276), the Yuan Dynasty government also elevated Kuoyin County to Kuozhou. But by the early Ming Dynasty. Due to the frequent wars. Kuozhou's residents were reduced, so in the fifth year of Hongwu (1372), the Ming government reduced the state to a county, Kuozhou Kuo County, and the county seat was still located in Kuoyin Town. Qing Shunzhi sixteen years (1659), at this time because of repeated flooding, the area is less and less, by the Qing government abolished the county, Kuoxian into the direct management of Tongzhou, from Kuoxian as a county-level administrative division will disappear in history. However, Kuoyin Town was once Kuoxian County into a larger village, that is, the county called the village name, Kuoyin Town, a disappearance, renamed Kuoxian Village to date.