Hèqìng

Heqing was a Bai-populated basin north of Dali in Yunnan. In 1271 it became the Yuan's Heqing Route, still governed by hereditary Gao native officials.

Ming armies entered Yunnan in 1382, and the court confirmed the Gao as hereditary prefects. In 1437 Gao Lun was executed for lawlessness and the native prefecture was abolished. Lin Daojie arrived as its first appointed prefect in 1443; the Gao were reduced to hereditary thousand-household officers and demoted again in 1683. Heqing became a department in 1770.