The county since the Han set Chengji County, A Yang County, Song set Deshun Jun, Long Gan County, the territory of the county, since the Yuan Dynasty, began to change the Deshun Prefecture for the Jingning Prefecture, Republic of China two years (1913) to change the Jingning Prefecture for the county. The name of Jingning, began in the Yuan Chengzong Dade eight years (1304), set Jingning state, inherited from the Song and Jin "Jingli Zhai" the first word to take the meaning of quiet and quiet, in order to express the desire of the people of all races to live in harmony. Jingning is the ancient Chengji. According to expert testimony, the history of the Chengji had three moves, and the earliest Chengji City in Jingning, the site is now located in Jingning County, southern Zhiping Township and Li store township at the junction of the Liu River and the five square river between the two villages (Lanzhou University Professor Feng Rowan Wu, "Introduction to the geography of Gansu"), and then experienced the two Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, the Western Jin Dynasty, sixteen countries to the abolition of the Northern Wei dynasty to the Northern Zhou Yu culture reset the Chengji County, the Tang dynasty twenty-two years (734 years) Because of the earthquake, Chengji County moved to the Qin'an Hsien-Chin-Chuan, the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, but also by the Hsien-Chin-Chuan migrated to Tianshui, which is the Qinzhou Tianshui Chengji. According to the evidence, human beings lived and reproduced here in the Neolithic Age, and it is said that Fuxi, who drew the Eight Trigrams and initiated civilization, and Nuwa, who made stones to mend the sky, were born here. In the 29th year of King Xiang of Zhou (623 BC), Duke Mu of Qin attacked the Rong, destroyed twelve countries, opened up a thousand miles of land, the Qin power to reach the county, the Qin Great Wall passed through the northwest of the county, which was formally included in the map of the Qin Dynasty. King Blush of Zhou thirty-six years, King Zhaoxiang of Qin twenty-eight years (279 years ago), Qin set Longxi County, the county belongs to. Chengji County set up time has not been recorded, but according to the ancient city of excavated artifacts, the city was built no later than the Warring States, as the county, seen at the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty. In the Western Han Dynasty, in today's Jingning County area set into the discipline, A Yang two counties. Cheng Ji in the south, the seat in today's Jingning County, Zhiping Township, about half a kilometer southeast of Liuhe Village; A Yang in the north, the seat in today's Jingning County, near the south of the city. Since then, Chengji County in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms and the Western Jin Dynasty, sixteen countries period, the Northern Wei Dynasty was abolished for a time, to the Northern Zhou reset, through the Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty, to the Tang Xuanzong Kaiyuan twenty-two years (734 years), due to the earthquake in Qinzhou, Qinzhou state rule from the Shangshi (today's water) to the Jingzinchuan (today's Qin'an County, North), Chengji County, Jingzinchuan, Jingning County migration, and the state rule of the same city. Han and Tang dynasties, located at the border of Jingning (that is, the then Ayang, Chengji two counties) of the rise and fall, and the situation of the entire Northwest region muddled into Jingning County City
integrated. On the one hand, the national strife, war frequently, the Western Han Dynasty, Xiongnu, Eastern Han Dynasty, Qiang people, sixteen countries, "five hu", Sui and Tang Dynasty, Tubo, successively in the Northwest China and the Central Plains dynasty to fight for supremacy, to the production of the community has brought great damage. On the other hand, with the Chinese dynasty's national strength, the border of the people of all ethnic groups and the harmony of the land transportation between the west and the middle of the smooth, economic and cultural and has had a period of relative development. Han, Tang period of the Silk Road from Chang'an westward, by Gansu Jingchuan, Pingliang, Dingxi, Lanzhou, along the Hexi Corridor, to Dunhuang; South line from Chang'an to the southwest by Gansu Lintao, Linxia area to Qinghai, and then by the mouth of the Qinghai Biandu into the Hexi to Dunhuang. Jingning County is located in the "Silk Road" in the middle of the eastern section of the line, the development of its economy and culture by the Silk Road business travelers to and from the great influence. Song Taizong in Taiping Xingguo four years (979 years) to raise the northern expedition, destroyed far away in Taiyuan, the northern Han regime, the unification of the north. However, the Xixia regime, which was located on the northern border of Shaanxi and Gansu, confronted the Song dynasty from north to south, and was always a strong enemy of the Song dynasty in the north. Located on the border of Jingning, its military and strategic position is extremely important. True Father Dazhongxiangfu four years (1011), Cao Wei, governor of Weizhou in Longshan outside the cage Ganchuan built Longgan City (now Longde County), as a military fortress against the Western Xia. Song Zhenzong Tianxi two years (1018), in the South City City (that is, the Tang South Ambassador City) set Jingbianzhai. Renzong Qingli three years (1043), Jingyuan Road Pacification Wang Yaochen, played the approval to the mountains outside (refers to today's Liupan Mountain) Tongbian, Jingbian, Longde, Desheng four fortresses built for the Deshun Army, Longgan City for the military rule. Zhezong Yuanyou eight years (1093), set Longgan County in the outside of the bottom of the Fort (now Jingning County), and will be moved to Longgan County Deshun Army, the army, the county with a city. Ming Hongwu three years (1370), descending Zhuanglang for the county, and Lund County with the subordinate Jingning Prefecture. Jiajing thirty-eight years (1559), Lund County directly under the Pingliang Province, Jingning Prefecture, only leading Zhuanglang County. Qing Shunzhi five years (1648), Zhuanglang County directly under the Pingliang Prefecture, since then Jingning did not lead the county. Kangxi three years (1664), the abolition of the former Ming Yuan Ma Temple, will be six camps of the six battalions of the Settlement Supervision and into the Jingning State. Yongzheng six years (1728), because of the Tongwei earthquake, the county rule moved to stabilize the prison, so cut stabilize the prison belongs to Tongwei County. At that time, Jingning Prefecture under the two square twelve miles. The two squares were Fumin Square and Yumin Square; the twelve miles were Tai'an, Ledu, Zunjiao, Renhe, Yihe, Tonghua, Guangcheng, Qinnong, Miben, Congzheng, and Changmingli. The second year of the Republic of China (1913), changed Jingning Prefecture for the county, the county is divided into 5 districts, jurisdiction 123 villages, under the book belongs to Jingyuan Road. In the fifteenth year of the Republic of China (1936), belongs to Gansu Province, the second administrative inspectorate commissioner's office. During the war of resistance against Japan, the implementation of the bail system, the county is divided into 6 districts, 294 bail. 1940 withdrew from the district, changed to 18 townships, 164 bail. 1942, jingning south of the 8 towns (TongNo, zhangMa, liangYi, ShuLuo, jiaoHanDian, zhujiDian, ningYang and JiDu) to zhuangLangXian, zhuangLangXian GuangYingXiang, yunCuiXiang part of the area to jingning. At that time, Jingning had Chengguan Township and 12 townships and 105 bailiwicks, such as Weirong, Renhe, Xinmin, Rendang, Zhiping, Gangou, Hongsi, Gaojie, Shanjinjin, Yuncui and Yinping. In September and October 1935, the 25th Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, the Second Red Army and the First Red Army passed through Jingning before and after the Long March, and Mao Zedong and the headquarters of the First Army made a brief stop at Jieshipu in Jingning. In October of the following year, the red two-pronged army long march through jingning, in jieshipu with come to meet the red part of the army, into the shaanxi and gansu base. 1949 August 6, the Chinese people's liberation army westward army, liberation of jingning, belongs to the dingxi commissioner's office. 1950 May 25th to pingliang special area. 1958 November withdrew zhuanglang county and jingning county. 1961 December and zhuanglang county is divided. Zhuanglang County in December 1961, under the Office of the Commissioner of Pingliang to date. 2002, the Commissioner of Pingliang Office to set up a city, Jingning County under the Pingliang City.