Jianshui Ancient City [Chaoyang Tower]

Jianshui Ancient City is located 220 kilometers south of Kunming, Yunnan. It was formerly known as Butou or Badian. The Nanzhao regime built Huili City here during the Yuanhe period of the Tang Dynasty (around 810 AD), under the jurisdiction of the Tonghai Governor. Huili is an ancient Yi language that means the sea. Translated into Chinese as Jianshui. In the Yuan Dynasty, Jianshui Prefecture was established, under the jurisdiction of Lin'an Road (with its administrative center in Tonghai), and the Lin'an Guangxi Yuanjiang and other places were established in Jianshui to oversee Lin'an, Guangxi (now Luxi County), Yuanjiang and other roads. In the Ming Dynasty, it was still called Jianshui Prefecture, and the road was changed to a prefecture. The administrative center of Lin'an Prefecture was moved to Jianshui. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Shuizhou was rebuilt as Jianshui County. In the first year of the Republic of China, Shui County was rebuilt as Lin'an County, and the following year it was renamed Jianshui County