Gao Mingqing, another son of Gao Taiming, was enfeoffed at Tongshi fu (also called Nongdong fu; the old Tang Yaozhou, modern Yao'an) after 1097 (Chinese Wikipedia, on Yi Mouyuan 2000), and was sent to guard Shanchan in 1111.
The Baiyanjing (White Salt well) lies in the fu. By the Yuan list Tongshi is one of the eight fu.
Who he is
- Name
- not known for 1 January 1200
- Title
- Lord of Tongshi fu for the Gao
- Since
- after 1097 for the fief
- Born
- not known
- Family
- Gao Mingqing's line
- Confidence
- low
Chinese Wikipedia 高泰明 and 大理国.
Overlord
the Gao chancellor
What it holds
- Tongshi fu (Yaozhou): the Yao'an basin and the hills to the Jinsha
- The Baiyanjing salt well (Dayao)
How it was acquired
1097 or soon after.
How things stand that morning
A Gao fief; the lord's name for 1200 is not known.
Wealth
White salt, rice, the road north to the Jinsha and Huili.
Military
Fu levies; no figure.
Threats
- The Yi hill tribes of the Jinsha side
Places of note
- Yao'an (Yaozhou): Yaozhou.
- Baiyanjing (Shiyang, Dayao): White salt well (about).
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: One fief grant and the name of the fu; nothing for 1199.
On the map: Dayao is drawn with Yao'an on the strength of the salt well; the fu's limits are not known.
Primary sources for Dali
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.
- The Complete Annals of Dai Viet, Ngo Si Lien, drawing on Le Van Huu's Dai Viet su ky (1272) and Phan Phu Tien; continued by Pham Cong Tru and Le Hi (1479; printed 1697 in the standard Chinh Hoa edition). The main narrative source for Dai Viet in 1200, compiled in 1479 from Le Van Huu's lost history of 1272. Read online
- History of Song, chapters 488 and 489: Jiaozhi, Dali, Champa, Zhenla, Pagan, Srivijaya, Java, Brunei, Chola and Tambralinga, Toqto'a (Tuotuo) and the Yuan history office, from the Song court records (1343 to 1345, from Song veritable records and court diaries). The Chinese court's record of its southern neighbours, compiled from Song archives. Read online
- The Unofficial History of Nanzhao, Yang Shen; revised by Hu Wei (16th century, revised 1775, from Dali and Yunnan traditions and lost local histories). The kingdom of Dali has no surviving text of 1200: its own records were destroyed in the Mongol conquest and after, and the Song shi's Dali entry ends in 1175. 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
- 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, 高泰明 (read this session; cites Yi Mouyuan 2000)
- 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.