Xiuning County (simplified Chinese: 休宁县; traditional Chinese: 休寧縣; pinyin: Xiūníng Xiàn) is a county in the south of Anhui Province, China, under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Huangshan City.

[1] Xiuning County is historically renowned for producing more zhuàngyuán (状元: the scholar with the highest score in the national Imperial examination), than any other place in China.

Accordingly, the large public space in Haiyang Town is called Zhuangyuan Square (状元广场).

While in China this house was home to many generations who made a living in traveling to Shanghai and running a pawn brokers business (as stated by the movie shown at the Peabody Essex Museum after exiting Yin Yu Tang House).

In early 2008, the BBC broadcast a series of 5 documentaries on the life of pupils at schools in China.