Yǒngshùn

Yǒngshùn was a hereditary native chiefship in the hill country of northern Guangxi, under the wider jurisdiction of Qìngyuǎn. The Ming established the office in 1492, recognising a local line of chiefs in a region where many communities were governed through inherited titles. Its name was shared with a much larger chiefship in distant Hunan, but the two were separate. Yǒngshùn remained a native office through the Ming and Qing periods, preserving local authority within the imperial administrative system.