The range of the Ziqi kings on the Guizhou and north-western Guangxi side of the Yunnan border: the Xingyi, Xingren, Pu'an and Qinglong country.
The king and his history are in the Ziqi lord record. The kingdom continues across the border into eastern Yunnan, which is another sheet's ground.
Who holds it
- Name
- Axie
- Title
- King of Ziqi
- Since
- 1176 (Wikipedia's list)
- Born
- not known
- Confidence
- low
See the Ziqi lord record; low confidence.
Overlord
None; a tributary of the Song in name
How things stand that morning
Probably the strongest power of the plateau on the evidence of 1178; no campaign is dated for the winter.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Wikipedia, "Ziqi (kingdom)", and one Song account; the king list is a modern reconstruction.
On the map: A zone, not a border.
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
- Wikipedia, "Ziqi (kingdom)"
- Zhou Qufei, Lingwai daida (1178), described in Wikipedia, "Lingwai Daida"
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