Vi Long

Who holds it

Name

not known for 1200

Title

Hereditary Hà chiefs of Vị Long

Confidence

low

The campaign board entry notes (the Bảo Ninh Sùng Phúc stele of 1107); English Wikipedia (the Vị Long rising of 1013-14)

Lord in 1200

A Hà chief; not named.

What the town holds

• The Gâm valley rice floors
• The road up to Hà Giang and across the line
• Tribute from the hill folk above the valley

Wealth

Rice floors and tolls.

Military

The Hà kin and followers; no numbers.

Threats

• Dali's old interest in this valley
• Court squeezing

Charter

No charter. A royal title and a Ly marriage tie.

Council

Hà clan elders; not recorded.

Communities

Tai-speaking farmers; other hill peoples higher up (the later Dao and Hmong settlers had probably not yet come; not checked).

Militia

Followers of the chief; no numbers.

Walls and castle

A chief's seat; no fortress known.

Trade and crafts

Rice, forest goods, tolls on the road north.

Places of note

• Vi Long: Seat

Where the sources disagree

• Map ruling (sheet builder, pass 1): Chiem Hoa is drawn as the ground of the native chiefs, as this record says. The Yunnan researcher's anchor gives it to Dai Viet; the Vietnam researcher owns this ground and draws the lordship of the native chiefs, whose allegiance field says Dai Viet.

Evidence: One dated stele of 1107; the rest is inference.

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