Bāzhài

Bazhai lies in the mountains east of Duyun, at a meeting of routes toward the Dan and Qingshui rivers. Miao communities inhabited the surrounding hills under the local Yaoba chiefs. In 1374 their leader Yao Alu submitted the people of Bazhai to the Ming court, which later recognised the hereditary office. The chiefs continued to govern the district under the Qing until 1730, when the government established Bazhai Subprefecture in the old chieftaincy's lands.