The Lancang (Mekong) gorge and the Lanping hills lie between Jianchuan and Weixi, with salt on the Lanping side and the road from the Erhai to the Tibetan border.
The people are Naxi, Bai and Tibetan villagers on the Tang and Dali evidence we could reach; the Pumi who give the county its name are Qiang from the north who come south with the Mongol armies after 1253 and are not for 1200. The Naxi chiefs record and the Jianchuan and Moutong fu claim the country by title. The ethnic names are modern groupings; the Tang Manshu and the Yuan texts use other names (Wuman, Baiman, Pu, Wang, Moxie, Mang) and the match is the scholars', not proved for 1200.
The sources for these hills are Tang and Yuan notices, Chinese Wikipedia pages on the counties and ethnography of much later centuries; none is dated to 1199 or 1200.
Who holds it
- Title
- Village headmen; the Naxi chiefs on the east side
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Family
- village headmen and ritual specialists
- Confidence
- low
No source we read describes them for 1200.
Overlord
Dali by title, through Moutong fu and the Naxi chiefs; nothing is shown that it collects.
How things stand that morning
Self-governing villages; no event dated.
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.
- 1250sPumi (Qiang) soldiers and settlers come south into Lanping with the Mongol armies (recalled, NOT re-read).Depends on: The Mongol conquest of Dali (1253 to 1254). Stopped by: No Mongol attack on Dali.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: General statements and the geography only.
On the map: Drawn from the modern counties where these peoples live; the real range of 1200 had no line and is not known.
Sources and studies
- Wikipedia, Naxi people (read this session)
- Chinese Wikipedia, 大理国 (read this session: the eight fu, four jun, four zhen and thirty-seven bu; it cites Yang Shen's Dian zai ji, Wang Song's Yunnan beizhengzhi, Ni Lu's Nanzhao yeshi, the Baigu tongji qianshu)
- OMNIA board, notes_msy.txt and places_msy.tsv (a lead, not a source)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.