Xīnchéng

Xincheng was a Zhuang native county on the middle Hongshui River in central Guangxi. A county had existed there since the Tang.

Under the Ming, hereditary chiefs of the Mo clan governed Xincheng as a native county. In 1582 the eighth chief, Mo Zhenwei, built a yamen at the northern foot of Cuiping Mountain, with its main gate, halls and ancestral shrine arranged along a central axis. The Mo chiefs continued to rule under the Qing.