Wǔcáo

Wucao lies in the uplands northwest of Qiubei, in the country once governed from Weimo. Its name was also written with the characters for Five Cao, and the surrounding country formed part of the complex of local districts recorded in the gazetteers of Yunnan. In the seventeenth century the Qing abolished Weimo Prefecture and reorganized its territory; the lands around Qiubei eventually came under Shizong. Hills and small valleys divide this upland region.