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Xiushan lies among the hills where the lands of Sichuan, Guizhou and Hunan meet. For centuries the district was governed by hereditary local chiefs of the Yang family, under the wider authority of successive Chinese dynasties. In 1736 the Qing replaced the chiefdom with a county administration. Irrigation works such as the Jufeng weir on the Pingjiang helped bring river water to fields in the surrounding hilly country.