Zhīshān

Zhishan was a district in the mountain country of northwestern Guangxi. The Song established Zhishan County under Wenzhou, and the Yuan later recorded a Zhishan prefecture under the Qingyuan and Nandan administration. Its territory belonged to a landscape of steep hills and river valleys inhabited by communities governed through local chiefs. These changing names and jurisdictions reflect the incorporation of mountain districts into the administrations of successive dynasties.