How did the name Pingdingshan come from? Are there any historical legends or allusions?
Haha, I asked the right person. I looked up books on place names, and that's what the veterans said. Before liberation, there was no Pingdingshan. During a war, teachers came here to inspect the terrain. At that time, they stood on the present Xiangshan Mountain to watch and named several surrounding mountains. Pingdingshan was named Pingshan at first, because in the battle, people always asked what Pingshan was. It was hard to understand, so it was renamed Pingdingshan, and no one asked, because everyone knew it was a flat-topped mountain. Perhaps the peace of Pingdingshan brought good luck at that time. The enemy thought it was too flat to hide, so they didn't stay here and the battle didn't start. After the Red Army left, the locals used to call it Pingdingshan.