The crossing point into Song Guangxi, where envoys are received and the overland trade passes to the licensed market on the Chinese side (board).
The masonry gate later called Nam Quan is a Ming work; in 1200 this is a post and a barrier, not a fortress (board). The Viet side is Lạng châu's ground. We checked the place with the ownership tool: it lies on this sheet's side of the line, and Pingxiang just north of it belongs to the Song sheet.
Who holds it
- Title
- Ly officer or local chief
- Confidence
- low
The campaign board entry notes only
Lord in 1200
The Lạng châu chief and the Ly court's border officers; not named.
Walls and castle
A post and a barrier; no masonry gate yet.
Trade and crafts
The overland trade with Song Guangxi; envoys' road.
Places of note
- Pha Luy (Nam Quan): The place
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: The campaign board entry note only for 1200; the pass is certain.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
Primary sources for Chiefs of the south-west
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.
- 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 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
- Miscellaneous Notes on Court and Country since the Jianyan Era, Li Xinchuan (李心傳) (first series 1202, second series 1216). A contemporary handbook of the Southern Song state, written in Sichuan by the historian Li Xinchuan and finished in its first part in 1202, two years after the start of 1200. 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
Sources and studies
- Lý-Song War, English Wikipedia (read)
- OMNIA board notes for the Vietnam and Champa area (a lead, not a source)
- Zhou Qufei, Lingwai daida (1178), Ling wai tai ta, archive.org item (named from the catalogue; text not opened in this run)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.