The Ta Tu river above Wa Ssu Kou¹ is the Chin Ch‘uan (“Gold Stream”), the Yangtse for hundreds of miles of its course is the Chin Sha Chiang [Kin Sha Kiang], or “River of Golden Sand,” and many streams of less importance bear similar names.
At the Chin Sha Chiang (River), during the Long March, Ch'en Keng and his cadets held an important bridge for five days, until the main forces of the Red Army arrived and drove off attacking White troops.
The “Flowery Miao or A Hmao” from Ya-Yu and Ya Pao of Guizhou moved to eastern Yunnan and settled along the banks of the Chin Sha Chiang river, then some later moved to southeastern Yunnan and finally to northern Vietnam.
