Yao elders of the Nanling high valleys act as go-betweens with the Song prefects of Daozhou, Chenzhou and Guiyang jun.
They keep their villages, hunt and burn charcoal, and trade at the county markets. No headman is named for 1200.
Who he is
- Title
- Yao headmen (elders)
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Confidence
- low
Not named.
Overlord
Song county magistrates claim them as taxpayers.
What it holds
- High valleys of the Nanling
How it was acquired
Hereditary.
Allies and rivals
Neighbours of the Guangxi Yao (in the scs records).
How things stand that morning
Quiet in our sources.
Wealth
Hill farms, charcoal.
Military
Household fighters; no numbers.
Threats
- Salt and tax quarrels
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Evidence is thin and later than 1200 for almost everything here. The Song histories file these peoples under the Man chapters (Songshi juan 493 and 494), which we could not open in this pass; what follows is the general picture those chapters, Zhou Qufei and Fan Chengda give for the twelfth century, recalled, plus Laosicheng archaeology for the Peng seat. No chief is named for 1 January 1200.
On the map: Tint only.
Sources and studies
- Background knowledge of Southern Song administration and the middle Yangtze (Cambridge History of China vol. 5 part 2; Hymes; Clark; Von Glahn; Bol; the travel diaries of Lu You, 1170, and Fan Chengda, 1177), recalled and not re-read in this pass
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