Tàigōng

Taigong lies in the Miao mountain country beside the Qingshui River. Its villages occupied a landscape of steep, forested slopes and narrow valleys, beyond the reach of many earlier imperial offices. During the Qing campaign to extend direct rule into the region, local people resisted the advancing armies. In 1733, after the fighting, the government established Taigong Subprefecture and built a walled post with a garrison. It became one of the new administrative centres created in the southeastern Guizhou highlands.