The Shibaoshan (Stone Treasure Mountain) caves in the hills of Jianchuan, with the Shizhong (Stone Bell) temple, hold rock carvings of the Nanzhao and Dali ages.
The campaign board says they were cut from the ninth century to the twelfth, with the kings of Nanzhao carved among the bodhisattvas; the dating accords with what we recall of the site (recalled, NOT re-read), and we opened no page for it. They lie about 12 km north of Shaxi on the road to Lanping and Lijiang, in Moutong fu.
Who holds it
- Title
- The monks of Shizhong Temple; not named; patron the Duan and the Moutong governors
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Family
- royal patronage (Duan)
- Confidence
- low
No source we read names the monks or the patron for 1200.
What it holds
- The grottoes and the temple on the mountain
How it was acquired
Cut in the ninth to twelfth centuries (board).
Allies and rivals
The Duan kings and the Moutong governors as patrons.
How things stand that morning
Standing; carving may be continuing or may have ended.
Where the sources disagree
- Board 'shibaoshan' (secure): nine-to-twelfth-century carving, Nanzhao kings among the bodhisattvas. Not checked against a page.
Evidence: The campaign board's account and our recall; no page read.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
On the map: A circle for a lone temple.
Primary sources for Dali
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.
- The Complete Annals of Dai Viet, Ngo Si Lien, drawing on Le Van Huu's Dai Viet su ky (1272) and Phan Phu Tien; continued by Pham Cong Tru and Le Hi (1479; printed 1697 in the standard Chinh Hoa edition). The main narrative source for Dai Viet in 1200, compiled in 1479 from Le Van Huu's lost history of 1272. Read online
- History of Song, chapters 488 and 489: Jiaozhi, Dali, Champa, Zhenla, Pagan, Srivijaya, Java, Brunei, Chola and Tambralinga, Toqto'a (Tuotuo) and the Yuan history office, from the Song court records (1343 to 1345, from Song veritable records and court diaries). The Chinese court's record of its southern neighbours, compiled from Song archives. Read online
- The Unofficial History of Nanzhao, Yang Shen; revised by Hu Wei (16th century, revised 1775, from Dali and Yunnan traditions and lost local histories). The kingdom of Dali has no surviving text of 1200: its own records were destroyed in the Mongol conquest and after, and the Song shi's Dali entry ends in 1175. Read online
- History of the Song, the chapters on Xia and on foreign states, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345). The Song court's accounts of its neighbours, each arranged as an annal of embassies and wars. Read online
- Draft Compilation of the Collected Statutes of the Song, Various; the Song huiyao were compiled by the Song state, the surviving draft reassembled by Xu Song from the Yongle dadian in the nineteenth century (the original Song compilations date from the eleventh to the thirteenth century; the surviving extracts were recovered in 1809 to 1820 and printed in 1936). Dated extracts from the Song government's own statute collections, arranged by office. Read online
- Notes in Answer to Questions about the Lands beyond the Passes, Zhou Qufei (周去非) (1178, after service in Guangxi). A Guangxi official's notes, written twenty years before 1200, on the south-western frontier of the Song and the countries beyond. Read online
Sources and studies
- OMNIA board, notes_msy.txt and places_msy.tsv (a lead, not a source)
- Wikipedia, Shaxi, Yunnan (read this session)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.