Dali's four commanderies (jun) as the Chinese Wikipedia, following the Yuan and Ming lists, identifies them: Dongchuan at Huize, Shicheng at Zhanyi (the Qujing country), Heyang at Chengjiang and Xiushan at Tonghai.
Shicheng governed Mimi and more than ten other bu in the Qujing country (Chinese Wikipedia on Qujing). The jun sit on the eastern and southern margin, between the Dali heartland and the Yi bu.
Who he is
- Title
- Governors (junshou) of the four jun
- Since
- not known
- Born
- not known
- Family
- not known
- Confidence
- low
The Chinese Wikipedia list (Yuan and Ming sources); no governors named.
Overlord
the Gao chancellor
What it holds
- Dongchuan jun (Huize)
- Shicheng jun (Zhanyi)
- Heyang jun (Chengjiang, on the Fuxian lake)
- Xiushan jun (Tonghai)
How things stand that morning
No event dated.
Wealth
Horses and men from the bu; rice of the lake plains; the road to Guizhou and the Song.
Military
Border commands over tribal levies.
Threats
- Revolts of the bu (1117 to 1141, about 1150)
Places of note
- Huize (Dongchuan): Dongchuan jun.
- Zhanyi (Shicheng): Shicheng jun.
- Chengjiang (Heyang): Heyang jun.
- Tonghai (Xiushan): Xiushan jun.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Only the list.
On the map: Drawn in the four province records.
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, 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)
- Chinese Wikipedia, 曲靖市 (history section, read this session)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.