Qìngyuǎn

Qingyuan was an administrative centre of the Zhuang lands on the Longjiang in northern Guangxi, seated at Yishan. In 1337 the Yuan Qingyuan-Nandan commission supervised native chieftaincies in the surrounding valleys.

The Ming restored Qingyuan as a prefecture. In 1504 Hechi county was raised to a zhou, whose seat moved in 1525 to Hechi town. Under the Qing, the prefecture included the areas of Hechi, Huanjiang, Nandan, Donglan, Fengshan, Tian'e and Xincheng, with Zhuang tusi governed beneath the prefectural city.