Yìníng

Yining was a county in the mountainous country northwest of Guilin. During the Southern Song, an exchange market was established there to facilitate trade between the peoples of the mountains and Han districts. A Ming magistrate, Liang Shunfu, praised the evening view from a fortified hill east of the town in a poem of 1520: below lay the county seat, its river and fields. In 1571 Yining became subordinate to the newly established Yongning Prefecture.