Dongping fu (the old Yunzhou) is the seat of the Shandong West circuit, on the edge of the Liangshan marshes and the Dongping lake, which the campaign board says the Yellow River's new course has swollen since 1194 (not checked).
It is the commandery's base for dealing with the flooded country to the south and west, and the market of the surrounding grain plain.
Who holds it
- Title
- Prefect or governor
- Confidence
- low
No holder is dated for 1 January 1200.
Lord in 1200
The commandery of Shandong West (not named)
Overlord
Emperor Zhangzong
What the town holds
- The circuit seat of Shandong West
- The commandery
- The relief granaries
How it was acquired
Held by the Jin since the conquest of the 1120s.
How things stand that morning
Probably at the edge of the flood country (see Yellow River works); no disturbance known.
Threats
- Floods
- Refugee banditry
Council
The prefect and the county magistrate, with the military commandery's officers; no town council known.
Communities
Han townspeople; Jurchen households.
Militia
The prefectural garrison; no numbers known.
Walls and castle
Probably walled, like most prefectural seats; no source we opened describes the walls.
Trade and crafts
Grain, reeds, fish. Not dated.
Where the sources disagree
- The campaign board entry id dongping-fu: the note that the lake is swollen by the river's new southern course is the campaign board's. We could not check where the 1194 course ran in relation to the Dongping lake.
Evidence: Secondary sources and general knowledge; the Jinshi's Dili zhi could not be opened in this session.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
On the map: Near land of ten kilometres; the campaign board's coordinates (35.87, 116.26) are about 20 km from the old Dongping city and are used as given.
Primary sources for Jin empire
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.
- 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
- 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
- Essentials of the History of Goryeo, Kim Jong-seo (金宗瑞) and the Joseon history office (1452). The chronological companion to the Goryeosa, finished a year after it and drawing on the same lost records, sometimes with entries the Goryeosa omits. 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
- Record of the Personal Campaigns of the Holy Warrior (Chinggis Khan) (presented to Khubilai in 1288, finished in Mongolian in 1290; the surviving Chinese version dates from 1369). A year-by-year Chinese account of Temujin's wars, drawn from the lost Altan Debter (the same source behind the Yuan shi's first chapter and Rashid al-Din). Read online
- The Secret History of the Mongols (1228 or 1240 (the colophon's Year of the Rat is disputed), with later additions; the surviving Chinese transcription and gloss were made under the Ming in the 1380s). The only Mongol account of Temujin's rise, written within living memory. 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
- 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
14 more in the sources library for North China and Manchuria.
Sources and studies
- 1194 Yellow River flood (English Wikipedia)
- Jin dynasty (1115-1234) (English Wikipedia)
- Jinshi (History of the Jin), Benji of Zhangzong, Dili zhi, Hequ zhi, Shihuo zhi and Bing zhi (recalled from memory and the secondary literature; the text itself could not be opened in this session)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.