Dìngyuǎn

Dingyuan lies in the hills north of Weichu, in the central Yunnan country once known as Mouzhou. During the Yuan conquest a military office was established here; in 1275 it became Dingyuan Prefecture, and was subsequently reduced to a county under Weichu. The Ming and Qing retained Dingyuan as a county of Chuxiong Prefecture. A Qing gazetteer records that the tax obligations of a military settlement were merged into the county in 1666, bringing the garrison's fiscal affairs under the local civil administration.