Gǔzhōu

Gǔzhōu and Báicāng, whose name means the white granary, are two hill towns of Shàoyáng County in southwestern Húnán, in the basin of the Zī River and its tributary the Fūyí. They lay in the countryside south of Shàoyáng, the seat of the prefecture. In 1337 the county belonged to the Yuán Bǎoqìng Circuit, formed in 1277. In 1368 the Míng restored it as Bǎoqìng Prefecture, and the Qīng kept that arrangement through the rest of the period. Gǔzhōu and Báicāng stayed farming districts under the county magistrate at Shàoyáng.