Xichang

Xichang, formerly known as Jiandu and Jianchang, is a city in and the seat of the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, within the south of Sichuan Province, China. In 2012 it had a population of 481,796. The Qiongdu were the area people on the time of contact with China. The county of Qiongdu is attested within the region from the Han dynasty. Under the Song, a local lord was given the title of "King of the Qiongdu". The region shaped part of the medieval Kingdom of Dali and become subdued via the Mongolians from 1272–4, after which it become integrated into Yunnan Province of the Yuan Empire.

It changed into prepared because the Jiandu Ningyuan duhufu, qianhufu, or wanhufu however persevered to be regularly referred to as Jiandu. In the book of his travels, Marco Polo recorded that the human beings of Jiandu and its hinterland used no coins but rods of gold bullion reckoned in saggi. Small trade become made using half -catty pieces of molded salt, every reckoned as one-eightieth of a saggio of pure gold. Under the Qing, it became officially known as Ningyuan Commandery however additionally persisted to be referenced under the antique call Jianchang. In the 19th century, it become the middle of Sichuan's manufacturing of "white wax".