Wǔyuán

Wuyuan was a county north of Nanning, in a landscape of cultivated plains and limestone hills. Its seat moved north from the Yong River during the Song, and moved again at the beginning of the Ming. Originally under Nanning, the county was transferred to neighbouring Si'en prefecture in 1577, a connection retained throughout the Qing. The old name survived for centuries as the county and its surrounding settlements grew.