Taixu guan, Qixia

Who holds it

Name

Qiu Chuji (Changchun zi)

Title

Master of the Quanzhen community at Qixia and builder of the Taixu guan

Since

winter 1191, when he led his disciples back from Shaanxi to Qixia (English Wikipedia)

Born

10 February 1148 (English Wikipedia labels it Gregorian and gives the 19th day of the first lunar month; by our own lunar calculation that lunar day is 10 February 1148 in the Julian calendar, since the first month began with the new moon of 23 January Julian, so we take the date as Julian), so 51 on 1 January 1200

Family

Born in Bindu village, Qixia county, Dengzhou; one of the Seven Perfected; a disciple of Wang Chongyang since 1168. In the likely course (below) he later heads the whole order.

Confidence

high

English Wikipedia, Qiu Chuji: six years at Panxi from 1174, seven years in a cave on Longmen mountain from 1180, in charge at the Ancestral Hut in Liujiang from 1186, summoned by Shizong to Yanjing in spring 1188, back to Qixia in the winter of 1191 where the Taixu temple was built under his supervision.

Overlord

Emperor Zhangzong, through the Jin registers of monks and Daoists

What it holds

• The Taixu guan and its lands (extent not known)

How it was acquired

Built under Qiu Chuji's direction from the winter of 1191 (English Wikipedia).

Allies and rivals

The other Quanzhen halls; the Dengzhou prefect and the court, who watch.

How things stand that morning

The community is established and quiet. We could not date the end of Zhangzong's order of 1191 against preaching; the hall stands and the followers come.

Wealth

Lay gifts and a small temple estate. No figure.

Threats

• A renewed ban

What the year holds

What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.

1. 1203Qiu Chuji succeeds Liu Chuxuan as head of the order, still based in Shandong.Depends on: Liu Chuxuan's death in 1203. Stopped by: A different succession.
2. February 1220Qiu leaves Shandong for the west after Chinggis Khan's letter.Depends on: The Mongol empire and the Khan's invitation, neither of which exists on 1 January 1200. Stopped by: No Mongol empire.

Places of note

• Taixu guan: The Quanzhen temple of Qiu Chuji at Qixia.

Where the sources disagree

• The campaign board entry id qixia-taixu-abbey names the house an 'abbey'; it is a Daoist guan, not a Buddhist abbey.
• The campaign board's note for qixia-taixu-abbey carries a later fact (the summons that carries Qiu Chuji across Asia, 'twenty years off'); we have put it in the likely course, where it belongs.

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.

"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.

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

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