Tōngdào

Tōngdào lies in the mountains where Hunan, Guizhou and Guangxi meet, among the villages of the Dong people. The Song established Luóméng County in 1102 and renamed it Tōngdào the next year. Under the Ming the county was briefly absorbed into Jìngzhōu in 1377, then restored in 1380. Villages along the Píngtǎn River included Hénglǐng, founded during the Tianshun reign, whose timber buildings and communal traditions formed part of the landscape of Dong country.