Cílì

Cílì lies in the Lǐ River valley of northwestern Hunan, where waterways emerge from the Wǔlíng mountains. The county became Cílì Zhou under the Yuan, then returned to county status in the early Ming. In 1390 the Ming established Jiǔxī Guard in the district, with several subordinate military posts. The Qing abolished the guard during its reorganisation of the region in the early eighteenth century, when native chiefships were replaced by directly appointed officials and new counties were created.