1, Kangding County is located in the transition zone between the mountains on the western edge of Sichuan Basin and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, in the west of Sichuan Province and in the east of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. This is the throat of the Sichuan-Tibet highway, and the terrain is dangerous. Historically, it is an important material distribution center in the mountainous areas around Sichuan, Yunnan and Qinghai-Tibet provinces. It is the gateway connecting the Han and Tibetan areas in Sichuan, and has an important political, military and economic strategic position.
Kangding city has a long and splendid history and culture. It is the throat of Sichuan and Tibet, the important town of the ancient tea-horse road, and the intersection center of Tibet and Han. Since ancient times, it has been the political, economic, cultural, commercial, information center and transportation hub of Kangba Tibetan area. The whole city covers an area of 1. 1.6 million square kilometers, and is a city dominated by Tibetans, with Han, Hui, Yi, Qiang and other ethnic groups living together.
Kangding is a Chinese name, so it is named because it means "Kang" to the east of Dandashan Mountain, which means "Kang and stability". In Tibetan, Kangding is called "Gengzhe", which means the intersection of Daqu (Yalong River) and Zheduo River. The old history was translated as "fried furnace" and later as "arrow furnace", referred to as furnace city for short.
4. It was the land of A Qiang in ancient times, which was called "Arrow Furnace" by Shu Han in the Three Kingdoms, and Li Shen County and Jialiang Land in Han Li in the Sui Dynasty. In the northeast of Tangxian County, there is a Tibetan state, such as Zhongchuan and Ye Hui. In the twelfth year of Chongzhen (1639), Khan in Gushi set up a camp officer in Muya.