新丰 / Xinfeng (Western Han)

Overview

新丰 / Xinfeng is the Western Han settlement that Hanji 328-1 says 刘邦 built east of Chang’an in imitation of Pei County so that 刘太公 could recover his familiar social environment and play 蹴鞠 with old companions.

Current Profile

The episode presents Xinfeng as a family-welfare project executed through urban and population policy. Material abundance in Chang’an does not restore Liu Taigong’s well-being because the move has separated him from friends, routines, and recreation. Liu Bang therefore reproduces the layout of 沛县 and moves former neighbors near the capital, turning place-making into the repair of a disrupted social network.

The source associates the settlement with today’s Xinfeng town in Lintong, Shaanxi. Because it does not provide a geographical or textual apparatus, exact distance, construction scale, relocation mechanics, and modern-site identification remain episode-attributed.

Key Characteristics

• Western Han settlement represented as a deliberate imitation of Pei County near Chang’an.
• Family-support project intended to restore Liu Taigong’s familiar community and daily life.
• Cuju setting that connects urban relocation, friendship, recreation, and elder well-being.
• Source-scoped ancient place associated by the episode with modern Xinfeng in Lintong.

Evidence

Recreated community:

• Hanji 328-1 says Liu Bang ordered a settlement modeled on Pei County and relocated people from his home region after Liu Taigong remained unhappy in Chang’an.

Cuju and social restoration:

• Hanji 328-1 says the move reunited Liu Taigong with former companions and allowed him to resume cuju for pleasure.

Location:

• Hanji 328-1 places the new city east of Chang’an and identifies its later location with Xinfeng town in Lintong.

Qualifications

This page currently rests on one compact podcast retelling rather than the underlying Xijing Zaji passage, archaeological evidence, or a historical-geography study. The episode’s “league” language is a modern analogy, and the claim that the settlement copied Pei County at full scale should not be expanded beyond the source without further evidence.

What Changed

• Established Xinfeng as a bounded place page linking imperial construction to restoration of an elder’s community life.

Relationships

• 刘太公 - family elder whose lost community and cuju routine motivate the settlement story.
• 刘邦 - ruler credited with commissioning the Pei County-like settlement.
• 沛县 - home landscape and social template the new settlement is said to reproduce.
• 长安 - imperial capital whose material comfort did not replace Liu Taigong’s local social world.
• 汉代蹴鞠 - recreational practice through which the restored community becomes visible.