The Song prefecture town on the upper Min where the Qiang villages and the Tibetan valleys come to buy salt, cloth and tea and sell herbs, musk, furs, hemp and a few horses.
The Song hold the walls, the market and the river road down to Weizhou; the stone-tower villages round it keep their own headmen. Wikipedia's Qiang page names Maozhou only in the Ming, when Chinese settlement and the violence of the 1580s begin; the Song prefecture here is from the South China sheet and the campaign board. The South China sheet, which wrote the same ground at its assignment's request, found no prefect, revolt or campaign for the winter of 1199-1200 either, and we agree.
Who holds it
- Title
- The Song prefect of Maozhou, name not known (see Maozhou (Song)).
- Since
- not known
- Born
- not known
- Family
- not known
- Confidence
- low
Place and role from the South China sheet and the campaign board; nothing specific to 1 January 1200.
Lord in 1200
The Song prefect of Maozhou, name not known (see Maozhou (Song)).
How things stand that morning
Frontier prefecture at peace as far as any source shows.
Military
No numbers survive for 1200.
Communities
Han officials and traders; Qiang and Tibetan villagers from the hills.
Militia
No numbers survive for 1200.
Walls and castle
A stockade or walled post (the campaign board: 'the stockade prefecture'); no description survives.
Trade and crafts
Tea, salt and cloth sold up the valley; herbs, musk, furs, hemp bought (general).
Places of note
- Maozhou: The place.
Where the sources disagree
- The campaign board entry maozhou: 'the stockade prefecture among the Qiang villages of the upper Min gorge'. Agreed. The South China sheet wrote Maozhou for the same place; the ownership tool gives the ground to this sheet.
Evidence: Place and role from the South China sheet and the campaign board; nothing specific to 1 January 1200.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
On the map: Marker only; a place, not a district.
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
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.