Jiānghuá

Jianghua took its name from a county seat south of Yanghua Rock, when the county was established in 621. By the Yuan period it belonged to Daozhou Circuit. Ming administration placed it under Yongzhou Prefecture within Huguang, and in 1462 the county seat moved to Huangtougang, now Tuojiang. This established the administrative centre used through the later Ming and Qing periods. Qing rule retained Jianghua's connection with Yongzhou. The county's Confucian temple had an older history of repeated moves and rebuilding, linking official learning with the changing location of county government.