Táipéngruòdòng

Taipeng Ruodong lay in the hill country of eastern Guizhou, where a Yuan chieftaincy governed a group of local settlements under Sizhou. In the fourteenth century the Sizhou rulers moved their seat here from Longquanping, making the district a centre of their extensive domain. The Ming renamed the native office Duping Eyixi in 1373. Its history belongs to a network of hereditary jurisdictions whose leaders governed the valleys and villages of the frontier before and after the change of dynasty.