Róngxiàn

Rong County lay in the hills south of the Yangtze, in a region inhabited by communities known in Ming records as the Duzhang. The county was established from the former Rongzhou under the early Ming. In the sixteenth century campaigns against the Duzhang brought severe fighting to the district. Afterwards the authorities changed the county's name to Xingwen and established a fortified administrative centre at Jianwu.