Tàipíng

Taiping was a network of native chieftaincies in the Zuo River valley of southwestern Guangxi, seated at Chongshan near Annam. The Yuan made it Taiping Route, leaving hereditary chiefs under the Liangjiang pacification office.

The Ming renamed it Taiping Prefecture in 1369; it later supervised seventeen native subprefectures and three counties. The Qing retained the prefecture but reduced native rule: Longzhou was divided into two native inspectorates in 1725, and the lower one passed to regular officials in 1729. Siming and Jiangzhou became native subprefectures under Taiping in the 1730s.