[1] The village lies in the west of Ganyu District of Lianyungang, and borders Shandong Province to the northwest.

The village is located in the low flat plain, bounded between the Zhufan and Tangzi rivers.

The larger one flows southward from the eastern upland area of Yushan Town in Linshu County, Shandong Province.

The small one flows southwest from Ganyu County in Jiangsu Province's western hilly countries.

River Mutuan is a large source formed in the western hilly countries of Yushan Town in Linshu County.

In Linhongkou, the River Dasha flowed southeast and entered the Yellow Sea.

More than half of the annual precipitation of 831 mm (32.7 in) falls in July and August alone, and the frost-free period is above 200 days.

The villagers buy and sell food, clothes, necessities, hardware, and farming tools on some fixed days of every month as per the Lunar Calendar.

Neither paper nor oral legend records when they arrived at this village, but it was much earlier than the family of Yeyutang.

The family of Yeyutang came from Dengzhou of Shandong Province during Chongzhen (1628~1644 BCE; year's name of Emperor Sizong Zhu Youjian) in the Ming dynasty.

The family regards Xinzhuang, a village near Qingkou of Ganyu County, as their home place.

However, the latest genealogy research shows that the two families are descended from a man named Wang Ying, who lived in the later period of Southern Song dynasty.

Other families' names include Zhu (朱), Xu (徐), Xiang (相), Li (李), Yuan (袁), Liu (刘), Lǚ (吕), and Zhang (张); about 10% of families use them.

In the Chinese mainland, an administrative village serves as a fundamental organizational unit for a rural population, not as part of a system of government.

Influence over the election usually comes from the township government, large clans, the rich, and even the gangsters.

The name Zhufan (朱范) was first mentioned in a genealogy book of Yeyutang Wangshi, written in the 1850s.

Hundreds of years later, the family of Zhu (朱) gradually replaced the Fan and became the main residents.

Years later, the Wang (王) family arrived and became the main residents in the early Ming dynasty (1368–1644).

There is a historic site of ancient Zhuqi in Gucheng Village of Ganyu County, about 1.5 km northeast from Zhufan.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, it became the border of Yichow Fu of Shandong province and was governed by Lanshan County.