Flood relief was directed by the grand eunuch Li Xing, who founded the city of Anping and established temples to the river god there and at Huanglinggan.
The original intention of setting up Fort Zeelandia at Tayowan (Anping) in southern Formosa was to provide a base for trading with China and Japan, as well as interfering with Portuguese and Spanish trade in the region.
At one time Governor Wang Ji of Anping heard of the fame of Guan Lu and invited him to come on a visit, in which he went.
In 1860 the Treaty of Peking forced the Qing government of Taiwan (then Formosa) to open up the ports of Takao (now known as Kaohsiung), An-Ping (Anping, Tainan), Tamsui (Tamsui, New Taipei) and Keelung to foreign trade.
Yuan Huangtou, the Prince of Anding, later the Prince of Anping, probably executed by Emperor Wenxuan of Northern Qi 559