Tibetan herding and farming villages in the upper Bailong country, on the high edge of the Song's Longnan strip.
They bring horses to the fair at Danchang, which the Xihe office keeps for the Xingzhou command, and buy tea, salt and cloth at Wudu and Danchang. The Song hold the markets and the road; the villages decide for themselves by headmen and feud.
Who holds it
- Title
- Elders and headmen of the valleys
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Family
- not known
- Confidence
- low
No headman is named in any source we have.
Overlord
The Song of the Xihe and Wudu offices give them titles and buy their horses; they pay no tax. Nobody else claims them.
What it holds
- The upper Bailong valleys
- The mountain roads west to the Tibetan country
How it was acquired
Hereditary.
Allies and rivals
Trade with Danchang and Wudu; no known quarrel with the Jin, whose Min county lies to the north.
How things stand that morning
No revolt or campaign is known for the winter of 1199-1200. The horse trade runs under the Song's licence.
Wealth
Horses, herds, furs; no figures.
Military
Village fighters; no numbers.
Threats
- A closed market at Danchang.
- Famine in a hard winter.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: The Song's Danchang horse fair and the tribes who supply it are in the campaign board and Chen Xifeng 2024's account of the Xingzhou horse quota; no chief or village is named.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
On the map: A rough block over scattered valleys; the Jin and the Tibet map border it on the north and west.
Sources and studies
- Chen Xifeng, Wu Ting gui Shu yu Nan Song zhongqi Sichuan de bianbei tiaozheng (Sichuan University Institute of Ancient Books, 2024, no. 6)
- Songshi juan 496-497 (Manyi 4-5), the Lizhou, Yazhou, Maozhou, Weizhou and Luzhou peoples: recalled, NOT re-read
- OMNIA board, notes_scc.txt (a lead, not a source)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.