Wèngshuǐ

Wèngshuǐ was a native chiefship in the country later organised as Wèng'ān County. Its rulers held authority under the hereditary lords of Bōzhōu, whose extensive domains reached across northern Guizhou. The Ming recognised a Wèngshuǐ native office in 1384. After the fall of the Bōzhōu ruler Yáng Yìnglóng in 1600, imperial officials planned a new county in the area. Wèngshuǐ and neighbouring Cǎotáng were brought under appointed officials, and their lands became Wèng'ān.