Yǒngníng

Yongning was a hereditary Mosuo tusi near Lugu Lake, at the meeting of Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet. Its chiefly house ruled under the Yuan, which had established Yongning Prefecture in 1279.

Yongning pledged allegiance to the Ming in 1371. In 1381 chief Budu Geji visited the Ming court, and from 1406 his heirs held the hereditary prefect title. Yongning submitted to the Qing in 1659, retaining the A family's office. Its lands shrank when Muli was granted to a lama in 1648 and the Kangxi Emperor gave Zuosuo and Qiansuo to a chief's relative in 1710.