Yōngníng

Yōngníng lies in the Yōng River country around Nánníng, a long-established centre of southern Guangxi. The town was known as Yōngzhōu under the Tang and Song, with Xuānhuà as its county seat. The Yuan renamed the circuit Nánníng in 1324, and the Ming made it a prefecture. Merchants travelled the river routes east towards the Xī River, while the city governed a broad hinterland of counties and hereditary native jurisdictions towards the southern frontier.