Dongchuan jun is one of Dali's four commanderies and is placed at modern Huize by the Chinese Wikipedia, on the road from Shanchan to the Jinsha and Sichuan; a Bipan bu is placed at modern Dongchuan district.
The people are Wuman (Yi). The copper that later makes Dongchuan famous belongs to a later age. No chief or governor is named.
Who he is
- Title
- Chiefs and jun governor of Dongchuan
- Since
- not known
- Born
- not known
- Family
- not known
- Confidence
- low
The Chinese Wikipedia list.
Overlord
Dali (the jun)
What it holds
- Dongchuan jun (Huize)
- The Bipan bu
How things stand that morning
No event dated.
Places of note
- Huize (Dongchuan): Dongchuan jun.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Only the list; the campaign board's note.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
On the map: Modern units: Huize County and the Dongchuan district of Kunming.
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)
- 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.