Wūluó

Wūluó was a native chiefship in the mountains of northeastern Guizhou. In 1413 it was placed under the newly established Wūluó Prefecture; when the prefecture was abolished in 1438, the office passed to Tóngrén. Its seat did not remain in one place. After the old seat was burned in 1568, it was moved to Hēipō and then, in 1572, to Xiǎozhài. These changes give a glimpse of the shifting centres of local rule within a region governed through hereditary chiefs.