Wǔtún

Wutun lay in the hill country west of Wuzhou, a region caught up in the conflicts of the mid-Ming. The Wuzhou prefectural gazetteer records campaigns and negotiations involving communities of Wutun during the Jingtai and Tianshun reigns. In the 1460s and 1470s officials also recruited people from Wutun to cultivate land in Cangwu, granting fields and registering grain obligations. Their movement linked mountain communities to farmland around the prefectural city.