According to the old county annals of Wuyuan, in the 24th year of Kaiyuan of the Tang Dynasty (736), Hong Zhen rebelled and used Jilong Mountain in Huiyu Township, Xiuning County as his camp. He gathered people in Sui'an, Kaihua and Xiuning on the borders of She, Qu and Mu. and o

According to Wuyuan old county records, in the 24th year of Kaiyuan of the Tang Dynasty (736), Hong Zhen rebelled and used Jilong Mountain in Huiyu Township, Xiuning County as a camp, and gathered people in Sui'an and on the borders of She, Qu and Mu. Kaihua , Xiuning and other counties. The imperial court sent troops to fight for peace for three years. In order to facilitate the rule, in the 28th year of Tang Kaiyuan (740), Tang Xuanzong decided to set up Wuyuan County on the eighth day of the first lunar month, and merge Huiyu Township in Xiuning County and Huaijin Township in Leping County, Jiangxi Province (one theory is that ht Youjin Township of ml1 Fuliang County ) was placed under the jurisdiction of Wuyuan County. The county seat was located in Qinghua Town . In the first year of Tianfu (901), the county seat was moved to Xiangao (today's county seat Ziyang Town ). When the county was established, Wuyuan was under the jurisdiction of Shezhou. In the third year of Xuanhe reign in the Song Dynasty (1121), Shezhou was renamed Huizhou, and Wuyuan belonged to it. Since Wuyuan was established as a county and opened to Anhui Province, it has remained under the jurisdiction of Huizhou throughout the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. After the Revolution of 1911, the government was abolished and the county was left. Wuyuan County was directly under the jurisdiction of Anhui Province. Therefore, Wuyuan was under the jurisdiction of Huizhou from the establishment of the county in 740 to the overthrow of the imperial system in 1911.

In 1934, in order to "suppress communism" in Jiangxi, the National Government put Wuyuan under the jurisdiction of the Fifth Administrative District of Jiangxi Province. In 1947, it was placed back to the jurisdiction of the Seventh Administrative District of Anhui Province. On May 1, 1949, Wuyuan was liberated. The people who liberated Wuyuan were the "Second Fields" of the People's Liberation Army, which belonged to the same force that liberated Jiangxi. For the convenience of military management, Wuyuan was placed under the jurisdiction of Fuliang District, Northeast Jiangxi Administrative Region, Jiangxi Province. In September, it was changed to Leping, Jiangxi Province. Special area; November belongs to Fuliang special area again. In October 1952, it was placed under the jurisdiction of Shangrao Prefecture of Jiangxi Province until now.