Jianchang fu

Who holds it

Title

Governor of Jianchang fu under the kingdom of Dali

Since

not pinned

Born

not known

Family

not known

Confidence

low

No source we have names him.

Lord in 1200

A governor of the kingdom of Dali (name not known).

Overlord

The kingdom of Dali.

What the town holds

• The Anning valley

How it was acquired

Not applicable: an ordinary prefecture town of the Song.

How things stand that morning

Not pinned. The campaign board says the Song keep the Qingxi pass closed to Dali's envoys.

Wealth

Not itemised in any source we have.

Military

The prefecture's garrison; no numbers.

Threats

• A quarrel with the Qiongbu chiefs on the road to Qingxi pass.

Charter

None. A Song prefectural town has no charter; the prefect and his clerks rule it.

Council

No town council. The prefect, the county magistrate and the clerks rule; no headman, judge or leading family is named in any source we have.

Militia

Not known: the prefecture's garrison and levy; no source we have gives a figure.

Where the sources disagree

• The campaign board entry certainty is 'likely'. The ground belongs to the Sichuan sheet by the ownership tool but the realm is Dali's; anchors give it as dali.

Evidence: Only the campaign board's note and general knowledge of the Dali fu; nothing was read about the town.

"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.

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