Yílǒng

Yilong is a county in the hills of northeastern Sichuan, within the old territory of Shunqing. In 1375 the Ming government incorporated it into Pengzhou, restoring it as a separate county five years later. The wars at the end of the Ming and beginning of the Qing left the district sparsely inhabited. Officials offered abandoned land to settlers, and later measures encouraged migrants to cultivate Sichuan's vacant fields. Among those who made homes in Yilong were Hakka families from other parts of China.