Dàolóng

Daolong was a crossing in the southwestern part of the Cheli country, known in later times as Daluo. Its Tai name refers to a ford shared by people of different communities. Under the Yuan it belonged to the Cheli administration, and a record of 1296 describes an attempted attack on Daolong by a Cheli leader allied with forces from Babai. The Yunnan authorities sent troops in response. The crossing lay in a frontier of small settlements and competing powers, where control of a river passage could matter far beyond its banks.