Officers: prévôtés, bailiwicks, seneschals · The Southern Song of Zhao Kuo (Ningzong) · as at first light, 1 January 1200

The censors

The instrument of the ban.

Li Mu (1195) removed Zhao Ruyu; Hu Hong (11th month of 1195) had him sent to Yongzhou; Liu Deshou (1196) called Liu Zheng the patron of false learning; Shen Jizu in the 12th month of 1196 accused Zhu Xi of plagiarism and heresy and had him stripped of his post; Zhang Fu asked in the 4th month of 1198 for an edict against false learning and, as Grand Remonstrator (jianyi dafu), impeached Liu Guangzu in the 2nd month of 1199 (a paymaster-general of Huaixi of the same name memorialised on the ban in the 6th month of 1198: the same man, we think). Hu Hong was moved out of the vice-ministry of Personnel in the 2nd month of 1199 and Liu Deshou was sent to govern Wuzhou in the 7th month of 1199. Chen Ziqiang is censor-in-chief and rises to the Privy Council in August 1200.

Who he is

Name
Hu Hong, Liu Deshou, Shen Jizu, Zhang Fu, Li Mu and Chen Ziqiang
Title
Censors and remonstrators
Since
1195 to 1200
Born
not pinned
Family
Not pinned
Confidence
medium

Song shi quan wen juan 29 shang and xia.

Overlord

Han Tuozhou in practice.

What it holds

  • The right to impeach and to veto appointments
  • The authority to name men to the list of the 'false learning'

How it was acquired

Appointment through Han Tuozhou's patronage.

Allies and rivals

Allies of Han Tuozhou; enemies of the Daoxue.

How things stand that morning

The prosecutors have been moved off; the ban's edicts stand.

Threats

  • The restoration of the ban's victims from 1202

What the year holds

What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.

  1. 20 October 1200The case of Lü Zutai.Depends on: A memorial attacking Han Tuozhou.

Places of note

  • The Censorate (yushi tai) and the remonstrance offices (location approximate): Where the impeachments are drawn

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Dates of memorials and removals from the chronicle; names of offices partly from zh.wikipedia.

On the map: An office; no ground.

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

  1. Songshi quanwen (Song shi quan wen), juan 29 shang, Ningzong annals Qingyuan 1 to 6 (zh.wikisource, Siku edition)
  2. Songshi quanwen, juan 29 xia, Ningzong annals Jiatai 1 to Kaixi 3 (zh.wikisource, Siku edition)
  3. zh.wikipedia, Qingyuan dangjin (the list of the proscribed)

Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.