The Song hold a ragged strip of Gansu and the south of Shaanxi on the high Bailong and Jialing: Fengzhou in the east, then Chengzhou, Jiezhou (Wudu), Xihezhou and Wenzhou.
The truce line runs just beyond the watchtowers of Fengzhou. North of the line are the Jin routes of Fengxiang and Qin and Gong (the nch sheet's), and in the west the Tibetan tribes of Danchang and the upper Bailong, who sell horses to the Song at Danchang. The Song-Jin line of 1165 follows the Huai and then the Dasan pass; this strip is where it comes down into the Gansu hills.
Who he is
- Title
- The prefects of the five frontier prefectures, under the Xingzhou command
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Family
- not known
- Confidence
- low
No prefect is named for 1200.
Overlord
The Xingzhou command and the Lizhou West commissioners.
What it holds
- Fengzhou
- Chengzhou
- Jiezhou
- Wenzhou
- Xihezhou
- The Danchang market
How it was acquired
Won back in the wars of the 1130s and 1160s and confirmed by the 1165 treaty.
Allies and rivals
Facing the Jin across the line; trade with the Tibetan tribes; the Song supply from Xingzhou.
How things stand that morning
The Jin-Song peace of 1165 (the Longxing treaty) is in force; no frontier war is under way on 1 January 1200. Border markets under licence exist on the Song-Jin line; the western ones are not pinned. The Jin hold Tianshui, Qin'an and Gangu to the north. The Dasan pass, where the line leaves the Qinling, is most probably still a Song post (the nch researcher's reading; no source says).
Wealth
Horses, tea and salt trade; little tax.
Military
Border garrisons of the Xingzhou command; no numbers.
Threats
- A Jin incident on the line.
- A tribal quarrel at Danchang.
Where the sources disagree
- The assignment lists a 'Kang zhou' in Longnan. We found no Song prefecture of that name there (Kang county is a creation of 1913); it is left out.
Evidence: The geography is certain; the frontier's local organisation in 1200 is from recollection and the campaign board.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
Primary sources for Southern Song
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.
- Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government, Bi Yuan (畢沅), completed by Feng Jiwu after his death (late eighteenth century, finished after 1801, from Song and Yuan sources). A Qing scholar's continuous month-by-month chronicle of the Song and Yuan centuries, compiled from the Song shi, the Liao, Jin and Yuan histories, Li Tao, Li Xinchuan and other Song sources. Read online
- Outline and Details of Two Reigns (thirteenth century, after 1224). A Song outline-and-detail chronicle of exactly the two reigns around 1200, drawn from the court's daily records. Read online
- Annals of the Western Xia, Wu Guangcheng (吳廣成) (1825 to 1827, compiled from Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan sources). A Qing scholar's year-by-year reconstruction of Tangut history from the Chinese histories, since the Xia left no surviving annals of their own in Chinese. Read online
- 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 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
- History of the Jin, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office, with Ouyang Xuan among the chief compilers (1343 to 1344, from the Jin veritable records and the Jin national history). The official history of the Jurchen empire that ruled north China and Manchuria 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
- Record of the Great Jin State, Attributed to Yuwen Maozhao (宇文懋昭); the attribution is doubtful (preface dated 1234; probably assembled in the Southern Song from Song and Jin material, with later accretions). A Song-side history of the Jin, with annals for each emperor and chapters on institutions, customs, the capitals and the Jurchen way of life. Read online
12 more in the sources library for South China.
Sources and studies
- Songshi, Dili zhi 5 (juan 89), the four Sichuan circuits: recalled, NOT re-read (zh.wikisource and ctext were unreachable in this session)
- Chen Xifeng, Wu Ting gui Shu yu Nan Song zhongqi Sichuan de bianbei tiaozheng (Sichuan University Institute of Ancient Books, 2024, no. 6)
- OMNIA board, notes_scc.txt (a lead, not a source)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.