The mountain belt of Taibai, the highest of the Qinling, between the Jin counties of the Wei plain and the Song prefectures of Hanzhong.
Here the valley heads are worked by hill hamlets (charcoal, timber, herbs, small fields) and holy men; neither the Jin counties nor the Song prefectures reach the high valleys. The record marks the ground as a mountain belt that governs itself in daily matters; no source we could read names a community or a headman.
Who holds it
- Title
- Hamlet headmen and elders of the Qinling hill communities
- Since
- not pinned
- Confidence
- low
No source consulted dates the office-holder for the winter of 1199-1200.
Overlord
The Jin from Mei and Zhouzhi at the northern foot; the Song from Feng zhou and Xingyuan at the southern foot
What it holds
- Qinling hill communities and its counties (the Qinling frontier belt)
How things stand that morning
Hill hamlets with no named lord. The Jin counts the foot of the hills as its own and the Song counts the south side as its own.
Where the sources disagree
- The assignment asks for "the hill communities of the Qinling"; we know no named community for 1200. This is a place-holder marking the unclaimed high ground.
Evidence: Seat and general extent follow the standard Jin administrative geography (Jinshi 24 to 26, Dili zhi). We could not open the Jinshi text in this session (the Chinese-language sites would not load), so which counties belonged to which prefecture is reasoned from the old units and the modern map and is indicative; no holder is dated for 1 January 1200.
On the map: Drawn from the modern county of Taibai; the true unreached belt runs east-west along the whole ridge and includes high ground in Zhouzhi, Hu, Chang'an and Lantian counties.
Sources and studies
- Jing-shen Tao, The Jurchen in Twelfth-Century China (University of Washington Press, 1976); not consulted in this session
- Herbert Franke and Denis Twitchett (eds.), The Cambridge History of China vol. 6: Alien Regimes and Border States, 710-1368 (1994); not consulted in this session
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.