South of Yongchang across the Lancang lie the basins of Lincang, Fengqing, Yun, Yongde and Gengma: valley floors of Tai rice-farmers ringed by Wa and Pu hill villages.
No Dali-period source we read names a lord or a fu here; the Nanzhao commands of Yongchang (west of the Lancang) and Yinsheng (east of it) leave this country between them. We treat the basins as self-governing valley chiefs within Dali's reach only by title. The Lincang chiefs record writes the people. 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
- Valley chiefs of the basins; not named
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Family
- village headmen and ritual specialists
- Confidence
- low
Nothing described.
Overlord
Dali by title, through Yongchang fu and the Yinsheng command; nothing is shown that it collects.
How things stand that morning
Tai valley chiefs under Dali by title; no event dated.
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
- 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)
- Chinese Wikipedia, 保山市 (history section, read this session)
- 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.