Dao County (simplified Chinese: 道县; traditional Chinese: 道縣; pinyin: Dào Xiàn) is a county in Hunan Province, China, it is under the administration of Yongzhou prefecture-level City.

Located on the southern margin of the province, it is adjacent to the northeastern border of Guangxi.

[5] Forces of the Taiping Rebellion stopped by Daozhou on their way to Changsha and Wuchang, Hubei.

It resulted in 4,519 dead, of whom 4,193 were killed outright and 326 were forced to commit suicide.

The other is that nearly 90 percent of the victims were labeled as "class enemies", i.e., the so-called Black Five Categories (landlords, rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries, "bad elements," and rightists) and their family members.