and Han dynasties and during the Three Kingdoms period, Xi'e County (t 西鄂縣, s 西鄂县, Xī'èxiàn) was also a county in the Nanyang Commandery. Xi'e (lit. "Western
Autonomous counties (Chinese: 自治县) and autonomous banners (Chinese: 自治旗) are county-level autonomous administrative divisions of China. The two are essentially
Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Revolutionary Base Area (湘鄂赣革命根据地), and, from 1931 November, of the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Soviet (湘鄂赣苏维埃).[citation needed] The Communist Marshal