Möng Wo

Möng Wo was a Tai Lü polity in the Weiyuan River valley of southern Yunnan, in the basin now called Jinggu. Its rulers submitted to the Mongols in 1262, and the Yuan established Weiyuan Prefecture in 1275.

The Ming retained Weiyuan as a native prefecture ruled by hereditary Dao chieftains. In 1723 the Yi leader Pu Youcai fled through Weiyuan after attacking Yuanjiang. In 1724 the Pu'er magistrate Liu Hongdu accused the chieftain Dao Guanghuan of sheltering criminals, exiled his family to Jiangxi and replaced the native prefecture with a directly administered subprefecture.