Badi Town was named by Wujiang County People's Government when it was founded on 1988. Bawa is a small market town in the south of Songling Town along the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. In history books, it is called eight exams and eight rejections, eight feet and eight red. "Hundred Cities Smoke Water" said that during the renovation of the canal waterway in Huzhou in the Tang Dynasty, Cishifan divided the market town into two parts and named it Bawa. On the one hand, there was a kind of "repulsion" along the pond in ancient times called reconnaissance _ king, which was the eighth kind, hence the name, and later evolved into eight kinds.

In the Song Dynasty, Batty had an emergency express store "Miao Jing Store". By the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the number of residents had increased to more than 200. Since the Qing Dynasty, it has gradually developed into a city east of the Canal. In the second year of Qing Dynasty, regional autonomy was implemented, and eight districts were towns. In the first year of the Republic of China, Bawa set up a township, and in 18, Bawa set up nine districts, which were towns under the jurisdiction of the districts. In 23 years, it was assigned to the first district (urban area). After the founding of New China, Bati Town was under the jurisdiction of Chengxiang District, and 1957 was renamed Bati Township, and the market town was under the jurisdiction of the township. 1958, the people's commune was established; 1983, restoring Bati Township; 1988 Withdraw villages and build towns. In August 2000, it was merged into Songling Town.