Cénxī

Cenxi lies in eastern Guangxi, in the hills watered by the Yichang River. Its name dates to 757, when the Tang renamed the earlier Longcheng County. The county later belonged to Tengzhou, but in 1377 the Ming reduced Tengzhou to a county and placed Cenxi under Wuzhou Prefecture. Through these changes Cenxi retained its own county seat, amid the river valleys and wooded slopes near the route between Guangxi and Guangdong.