Huàchéng

Huacheng, sometimes written with a homophonous second character, was the county at the seat of Bazhou in northeastern Sichuan, on the site of Bazhong. In the Yuan period it belonged to Bazhou and inherited territory from the neighbouring counties of Nanjiang and Enyang. Its separate county administration ended in April 1376, when the Ming government incorporated Huacheng into the prefectural seat and reduced Bazhou itself to Ba County under Baoning Prefecture. In 1514 the jurisdiction was raised again to Bazhou. The town itself continued, and the old Huacheng county was remembered as the seat of Bazhou.