Origin: as for the name of this county, “An” means peace in heart and “Xi” means flowing stream which symbolizes life; life is “Shengming” in Chinese; “Sheng” means consciousness cycle which symbolizes immortality and “Ming” involves heaven and earth and yin and yang which symbolize good luck; the ultimate goal of the life is similar to that of a stream, namely, flowing in peace; Anxi County is located in two banks of a stream and people are likely to live beside the stream.
Brief introduction: Anxi County is located in the southeast coastal area of Fujian Province and the northwest of the Golden Triangle, Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou and it is a county of municipal region of Quanzhou. It occupies a total area of 3057.28 km2, oversees 24 towns and townships (including 465 villages) and has 1.12 million people from Han, She, etc. Anxi County is the vastest county of Quanzhou.