Peaceful River County was a major county of Swallow Province. It was called Peaceful River County because the Peaceful River ran through it. The surging waters of the Peaceful River flowed across Swallow Province, making two enormous loops of over a thousand kilometers each through the southeastern part of the province, like a giant dragon rolling across the vast land of Swallow Province. It was as if wrought by ghosts and gods, and like the bold splashes of ink in a painter's landscape, turning the rushing Peaceful River winding and sinuous before it surged eastward once more...
The breeze was tender with intent, the winding water full of feeling. That great bend of the Peaceful River, with its quiet affection, embraced and irrigated thousands of miles of fertile fields, creating the prosperity of all Peaceful River County.
Peaceful River County was known as the granary of Swallow Province, and the entire county was famed for its grain production. The reputation of Peaceful River grain resounded not only throughout You Province and the Northeast Protectorate, but even among Great Xia's many renowned grain-producing regions, it held a place of distinction. Every year, officials from the Lesser Treasury of Xuanyuan Hill came to purchase some of Peaceful River County's finest grain as imperial tribute, for the enjoyment of the great officials and nobles in the Imperial Emperor City and imperial palace of Xuanyuan Hill.
The bounty of the Peaceful River and the grain grown from black soil as rich as grease had also given rise to Peaceful River Daqu, one of Great Xia's ten famed liquors.
Peaceful River Daqu was brewed from Peaceful River County's winter wheat. The county's winter wheat was sown in late September each year and began to ripen by the end of May the following year. Whenever harvest