Erdu Township () is a

township A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, C ...

of Shimen County in

Hunan Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi ...

, China. The township is located in the southwestern Shimen County, it is bordered by Xinguan (), Chujiang and Yijiadu () towns to the north,

Linli County Linli () is a county in Hunan Province, China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Changde. The county is located on the north in Hunan, the north-central part of Changde's administration, it borders to the north by Li ...

to the east, Jiashan Town () to the south, Miaoshi Town of

Cili County Cili () is a county in Hunan Province, China under administration of the prefecture-level city of Zhangjiajie. Located in the north of Hunan and the east of Zhangjiajie, Cili County is bordered to the southeast by Taoyuan County, to the south and ...

to the west. The township has an area of with a population of 27,770 (as of 2010 census).the History of Shimen County / 石门县历史沿革, se
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History

Tujia people The Tujia ( Northern Tujia: ''Bifjixkhar'' / ''Bifzixkar'', IPA: , Southern Tujia: ''Mongrzzir'', ; ) are an ethnic group and, with a total population of over 8 million, the eighth-largest officially recognized ethnic minority in the People's ...

inhabited the land in pre- Ming times, it was a separate regime roled by

Tusi ''Tusi'', often translated as "headmen" or "chieftains", were hereditary tribal leaders recognized as imperial officials by the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties of China, and the Later Lê and Nguyễn dynasties of Vietnam. They ruled certain e ...

Yuan dynasty The Yuan dynasty (), officially the Great Yuan (; xng, , , literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its division. It was established by Kublai, the fift ...

. In 1369, the Tusi surrendered to the

Ming dynasty The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last orthodox dynasty of China ruled by the Han peo ...

Han Han may refer to: Ethnic groups * Han Chinese, or Han People (): the name for the largest ethnic group in China, which also constitutes the world's largest ethnic group. ** Han Taiwanese (): the name for the ethnic group of the Taiwanese p ...

immigrant increased after Tusi's surrender, a conflict broke out between Ming government and Tusi in 1390, with his tribe, the Tusi was forced to transfer to the Western Hunan. ''Erdu Township'' was formed in 1956, reorganized as a commune, reformed as a township in 1984.the history of Erdu Township, according to the ''Dictionary of Chinese Administrative Divisions'' (中国行-政区划大典) published by the ''People's Publishing House of Zhejiang'' (浙江人民出版社)

References

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