Maqu was called Xizhi River Basin in Qiang area in ancient times. According to the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, in the Western Zhou Dynasty, when he was king, he made a expedition to the west and won five kings and four white deer. Amdo's history of politics and religion and Wang Tong's records in Tibet also claim that one of the six Tibetan surnames occupying the three peaks of the plateau, the Mako (Hequ) department of Dong Shi (Dangxiang Qiang) who has a white deer totem thrives here.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the descendants of Dong Shi have developed into many tribes.

The Qin Dynasty was still under the control of Dong Shi.

In the Han Dynasty, Lingguo (self-proclaimed) was the son of heaven, belonging to Dong by surname, and to Yunnan Lingzhong Village by region.

During the Three Kingdoms period, meandering land belonged to Qiang branch and Yi land.

During the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the first song of the Yellow River belongs to the category of Xixia medicine.

Heyuan County belonged to Sui Dynasty.

In the Tang Dynasty, he learned from General Tubo (our emissary) that Domiwei (whose government was located in Hequ) belonged to Dong (Tangut adherents' Department) and was one of the six departments of Tongcha (Zhou) Jiuzhou.

Song belongs to Tubo Tuskama (Mi Duo) area.

The Yuan Dynasty was the way for the propaganda and appeasement departments of Tubo and other places to take off their thinking, and this place is still called the spiritual emperor.

In the Ming Dynasty, all the land belonged to the Brazilian ministries except Zhuogenima, which belonged to Wei, the capital of Shaanxi Province, and was divided into the King of Zanshan.

The Qing Dynasty belonged to the Elute Department of Mongolia. In the first year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1723), after the rebellion of Zangdanjin in Luobu, it was under the jurisdiction of the Minister of Mongolian Fanzi Affairs in Qinghai, an imperial envoy of Qing Dynasty. In the forty-two years of Qing Qianlong (1777), the first official tribe of Hequ, the Euler tribe, was formed in Labrang Temple in Xiahe. In the 24th year of Guangxu reign (1898), the north and south of Hequ were under the jurisdiction of Labrang Temple.

In the seventeenth year of the Republic of China (1928), it belonged to Xiahe County, Gansu Province, but its decrees could only be carried out in various departments of Hequ through Labrang Temple.

1September, 949 18. After liberation, Xiahe County became the seventh district of Xiahe County.

1953 In March, the Euler Working Committee and the Euler Administrative Working Group of the Communist Party of China officially entered the first bend of the Yellow River to carry out their work. In September 2006, it was changed to Maqu Working Committee and Maqu Management Committee.

1June, 955, the county was established with the approval of Gansu Provincial People's Committee. Maqu is named after the Yellow River. It is called Maqu in Tibetan and belongs to Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

65438+65438 0959+65438 10 +0, Maqu and Luqu merged to become Taojiang County; June 1 96265438+1October1,Taojiang County was abolished and Maqu and Luqu counties were restored.