Yǒngpíng

Yǒngpíng was the county seat of Jìngzhōu in the mountain country of southwestern Hunan. It stood at the centre of a region where Miao and Dong communities lived among the river valleys and wooded hills. The early Ming briefly raised Jìngzhōu to a prefecture in 1370. Six years later the government reduced it to a directly administered zhou and absorbed Yǒngpíng County into it, so that the town became the seat of the zhou itself.