The uplands where Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi meet are held by hill dong peoples who farm burnt fields, make salt and trade in the hills; the name She is not attested before the 1230s and is the later name of the people.
Wikipedia's "She people" says that some think the people's home is Phoenix Mountain north of Chaozhou, that Han migration pushed them into the hills, and that salt-makers among them on Lantau attacked Canton in a Song revolt (the year not given; the Hong Kong text dates the Lantau rising to 1197). The Song counts them as barbarian households or as bandit country, according to the season.
Who holds it
- Title
- Hill headmen
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Confidence
- low
No source available to me names the holder in the winter of 1199-1200.
Overlord
None; the Song reaches them through stockades and salt
How things stand that morning
Quiet on the evidence we have.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Wikipedia and general knowledge.
On the map: A zone placed from the later homeland of the She.
Sources and studies
- Wikipedia, "She people"
- Hong Kong history text on the Song salt fields, Dayushan (Lantau) and Tuen Mun (Joint Publishing HK, ISBN 9789620448010, section on the Song Guanfu salt field)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.