Yǒngmíng

Yongming was a county of Daozhou in southern Hunan, with its seat on the south bank of the Xiao River. The district lay among the valleys and ridges near the boundary with Guangxi. Its name came from Yongming Ridge, also known as Dupangling, one of the mountain chains of the Nanling.

The county had been suppressed in 1072 and its territory joined to Yingdao, but was restored in 1086 under the Song. It remained a separate county through the Yuan, Ming and Qing, its seat looking across the Xiao toward the lands to the north.