Hengfeng county was set up in the 39th year of the Ming Jiajing Reign (1560) with the name Xing'an (兴安县).

Fang and Shao Shiping had successfully launched Yiyang-Hengfeng Uprising and built the Northeast Jiangxi Revolution Base.

But unfortunately he was captured by the Kuomintang troops in the Huaiyu Mountains, Yushan County, Jiangxi in his adult age in 1935 and killed in Nanchang in the same year.

With Fang, Shao had successfully launched the Yiyang-Hengfeng Uprising and built the Northeast Jiangxi Revolution Base.

Currently the local government concentrates on developing economy, mainly by building industry garden and offering good policies.

The local residents recommended him to use the fountain from the Cen Mountain Cave to wash her eyes.

Geyuan Town once was the capital of The Northeast Jiangxi Revolution Base where quite a lot of relics remain, such as Red Square, Hospital, Post Office, The school of Workers Peasants & Warriors, and so on.