Báishān

Báishān was a native chieftainship in the Zhuang country of central Guangxi, south of the Hóngshuǐ River, where the Wǔmíng River rises. In 1439 the Ming raised Sī'ēn, held by the chieftain Cén Yīng, to a native prefecture, and in 1442 he moved its seat to Qiáolì, in these same hills. In 1527 Wáng Shǒurén, after pacifying the region, judged the seat too remote; in 1528 the prefecture moved sixty li away to Wǔyuán. At that time Báishān, together with Dūyáng, Āndìng, Gǔlíng, Xīnglóng and other chieftainships, was placed under Sī'ēn, and it remained one of its tǔsī for centuries.