Why is Fanxian called "the first wonderful county in China"?

Fan County belongs to Henan Province and Puyang City. This county should not be underestimated. Known as "the first wonderful county in China". In China, such counties are rare. The main wonder is that this county is in other provinces, the old county seat of Fanxian County is in Cherry Garden Town, and most areas of Cherry Garden Town belong to Liaocheng City, Shandong Province. In fact, it can be clearly seen on the map that the old county of Fanxian is under the jurisdiction of other provinces, too.

In Fan County, Puyang City, Henan Province, there is a folk proverb: "The county is outside the provincial boundaries." Fanxian County is under the jurisdiction of shenxian county Cherry Garden Town, and is located in the same place as the town government. As a county, even in other provinces, we are curious about the reasons. Originally, in April of 1964, the state designated Fanxian County and Taiqian County on the north bank of the Yellow River as flood discharge areas in Henan Province, while Dongming County, which belonged to Henan Province on the south bank of the Yellow River, was placed under the jurisdiction of Shandong Province, and cherry orchard, Guyun and Guancheng, which belonged to Fanxian County, were located in the north of Jindi River. Considering that Fan County is located in the flood storage and detention area, and in order to build the county seat of Fan County, Jincun and Zhangfu villages, which originally belonged to Cherry Garden Town, were included in Fan County, forming a unique and extremely special administrative division in the country, so the phenomenon of "one country monster, the county seat is located outside the provincial boundary" will appear.