The Ashi River is a right tributary of the Songhua in eastern Manchuria,[1] in Harbin's Acheng District in the People's Republic of China.
The river has borne the name "Ashi" since the Qing (17th–20th century).
[1] Before that, it was known as the Anchuhu (Middle Chinese: ʔan-tsyhwit-xu), a medieval Chinese transcription of its original Jurchen name Anchun, Ancun, or Alcun,[n 1] meaning 'gold' or 'golden', presumably from placer deposits along its banks.
The river was the home to Huining (now Acheng), the original settlement of the Wanyan clan of the Jurchens.
When their chief Aguda declared himself the successor of the Liao c. 1115, he adopted the dynastic name Jin as a Chinese translation of the river's name.