Yìnjiāng

Yinjiang lies in the hills west of Fanjing Mountain, on a river whose old name gave the district its own. The Yuan established the Siyinjiang chieftaincy here; in 1495 the Ming removed its chief Zhang Heling and replaced the hereditary office with Yinjiang County. The mountain country also supported religious communities. Xiyan Temple, already established by the Song period, was among the Buddhist sites known in the region, where temples stood amid the forests and valleys surrounding Fanjing Mountain.