Kunyu and Ninghai

Who holds it

Name

Wang Chuyi (Yuyang)

Title

Quanzhen master of the Yushan line, hermit of Mount Kunyu

Since

not pinned

Born

1142 (English Wikipedia)

Family

One of the Seven Perfected, a disciple of Wang Chongyang; founder of the Yushan lineage of Quanzhen. His place in 1200 is not pinned.

Confidence

low

English Wikipedia, Wang Chuyi: born 1142, lived in a cave on Mount Kunyu as a hermit, founded the Yushan lineage. The page gives nothing on his summons to court or his whereabouts in the 1190s. The Quanzhen page calls Mount Kunyu, in Weihai, the birthplace of the school.

Overlord

Emperor Zhangzong, through the Jin registers of monks and Daoists

What it holds

• The huts and caves of Mount Kunyu
• The Quanzhen Hut at Ninghai (a hall founded 1167-1168)

How it was acquired

Wang Chongyang's foundations of 1167-1170, continued by the Seven Perfected.

How things stand that morning

Not described in any source we opened; Wang Chuyi's whereabouts in 1200 are not pinned.

Wealth

Very small. No figure.

Threats

• A renewed ban

Places of note

• Mount Kunyu: The hermit mountain of the early Quanzhen (coordinates approximate).
• Ninghai: The Quanzhen Hut of Wang Chongyang, 1167-1168.

Where the sources disagree

• Wang Chuyi (Yuyang) is not Wang Chongyang (Wang Zhe), the founder who died in 1170; the two share a family name and the two are often confused.

Evidence: The Jinshi text could not be opened in this session; the dates below come from the English Wikipedia pages named in the sources and from memory, marked where unchecked.

On the map: A marker or a small disc: the house's lands and boundaries are not known.

Primary sources for Jin empire

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• Annals of the Western Xia, Wu Guangcheng (吳廣成) (1825 to 1827, compiled from Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan sources). A Qing scholar's year-by-year reconstruction of Tangut history from the Chinese histories, since the Xia left no surviving annals of their own in Chinese. Read online
• Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government, Bi Yuan (畢沅), completed by Feng Jiwu after his death (late eighteenth century, finished after 1801, from Song and Yuan sources). A Qing scholar's continuous month-by-month chronicle of the Song and Yuan centuries, compiled from the Song shi, the Liao, Jin and Yuan histories, Li Tao, Li Xinchuan and other Song sources. Read online
• Essentials of the History of Goryeo, Kim Jong-seo (金宗瑞) and the Joseon history office (1452). The chronological companion to the Goryeosa, finished a year after it and drawing on the same lost records, sometimes with entries the Goryeosa omits. Read online
• Outline and Details of Two Reigns (thirteenth century, after 1224). A Song outline-and-detail chronicle of exactly the two reigns around 1200, drawn from the court's daily records. Read online
• Record of the Personal Campaigns of the Holy Warrior (Chinggis Khan) (presented to Khubilai in 1288, finished in Mongolian in 1290; the surviving Chinese version dates from 1369). A year-by-year Chinese account of Temujin's wars, drawn from the lost Altan Debter (the same source behind the Yuan shi's first chapter and Rashid al-Din). Read online
• The Secret History of the Mongols (1228 or 1240 (the colophon's Year of the Rat is disputed), with later additions; the surviving Chinese transcription and gloss were made under the Ming in the 1380s). The only Mongol account of Temujin's rise, written within living memory. Read online
• History of the Jin, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office, with Ouyang Xuan among the chief compilers (1343 to 1344, from the Jin veritable records and the Jin national history). The official history of the Jurchen empire that ruled north China and Manchuria in 1200. Read online
• Record of the Great Jin State, Attributed to Yuwen Maozhao (宇文懋昭); the attribution is doubtful (preface dated 1234; probably assembled in the Southern Song from Song and Jin material, with later accretions). A Song-side history of the Jin, with annals for each emperor and chapters on institutions, customs, the capitals and the Jurchen way of life. Read online

14 more in the sources library for North China and Manchuria.