The Weimo bu (维摩) is number 14 in the Chinese Wikipedia's list of the thirty-seven bu, which places it at modern Qiubei.
Its ground is the plateau south of Luoping and east of Kaiyuan. It lies on the Ziqi march, where Dali's reach meets Ziqi's. The thirty-seven bu are the tribal districts of the east and south that the Yuan and Ming writers say answered to Dali, each under its own chief; the campaign board says they paid in horses and men; English Wikipedia says the thirty-seven tribes of north-east Yunnan had been allied with the Duan since 971 and revolted early in the reign of Duan Zhengyan (1117 to 1141), and the campaign board puts the oath of 971 at Shicheng (which we could not confirm).
The list is a late compilation (Yang Shen's Dian zai ji, Ming; Wang Song's Yunnan beizheng zhi, Qing; Ni Lu's Nanzhao yeshi, Ming) and the equation of each bu with a modern county is the Chinese Wikipedia's. No chief, tribute or event is dated for this bu in 1200.
Who holds it
- Title
- Chief of the Weimo bu
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Family
- not known
- Confidence
- low
No source we read names any bu chief for 1200.
Overlord
Dali by title; the chief holds the country.
How things stand that morning
No event dated.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: One line in a late list, equated with a modern county by the Chinese Wikipedia; nothing else about this bu in the sources we read.
On the map: One modern county stands for the bu; the real country of a bu had no line.
Primary sources for Chiefs of the south-west
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- History of the Song, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345, from the Song veritable records, state histories and the Huiyao). The official history of the Southern Song, which ruled from Lin'an (Hangzhou) in 1200. Read online
- History of the Song, the chapters on Xia and on foreign states, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345). The Song court's accounts of its neighbours, each arranged as an annal of embassies and wars. Read online
- Draft Compilation of the Collected Statutes of the Song, Various; the Song huiyao were compiled by the Song state, the surviving draft reassembled by Xu Song from the Yongle dadian in the nineteenth century (the original Song compilations date from the eleventh to the thirteenth century; the surviving extracts were recovered in 1809 to 1820 and printed in 1936). Dated extracts from the Song government's own statute collections, arranged by office. Read online
- Miscellaneous Notes on Court and Country since the Jianyan Era, Li Xinchuan (李心傳) (first series 1202, second series 1216). A contemporary handbook of the Southern Song state, written in Sichuan by the historian Li Xinchuan and finished in its first part in 1202, two years after the start of 1200. Read online
- Notes in Answer to Questions about the Lands beyond the Passes, Zhou Qufei (周去非) (1178, after service in Guangxi). A Guangxi official's notes, written twenty years before 1200, on the south-western frontier of the Song and the countries beyond. Read online
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)
- Yuanshi (History of Yuan), Dili zhi on Yunnan, and Li Jingyuan, Yunnan zhilue (1331): the Yuan sources of the Dali structure lists; recalled through the Chinese Wikipedia, NOT re-read
- Wikipedia, Dali Kingdom (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.