The brief names Fanzhou and the Guiyang edge.
We read these as the "Fan" (barbarian) chiefs of the south-eastern plateau, the hill country between Guiyang, Duyun and the Guangxi border, who were given Song prefecture titles in the loose-rein system. We could not fetch a source and could not identify Fanzhou with any single Song prefecture; Sinan and Xiazhou, also named, are not placed here (Sinan is the later name of the Tian lands). The polygon is a zone.
Who holds it
- Title
- The Fan chiefs
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Confidence
- low
Not known. No source we could read names them.
Overlord
The Song court in name (titles and seals)
Where the sources disagree
- The brief names Fanzhou, Xiazhou and Sinan among the Guizhou chieftaincies; we could place only the Fan districts, loosely.
Evidence: Recollection only; no source fetched.
On the map: A zone, not a border.
Primary sources for Chiefs of the south-west
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.
- History of the Song, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345, from the Song veritable records, state histories and the Huiyao). The official history of the Southern Song, which ruled from Lin'an (Hangzhou) in 1200. 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
- Miscellaneous Notes on Court and Country since the Jianyan Era, Li Xinchuan (李心傳) (first series 1202, second series 1216). A contemporary handbook of the Southern Song state, written in Sichuan by the historian Li Xinchuan and finished in its first part in 1202, two years after the start of 1200. 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
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.