Xinye

Who holds it

Title

Jin county magistrate (ling) of Xinye

Since

not pinned

Born

not known

Confidence

low

Name not known for 1 January 1200. Song prefects and magistrates rotated every two or three years, so a name from another year cannot be assumed.

Lord in 1200

The Jin magistrate (ling) of Xinye county under the prefect of Dengzhou; name not known.

Overlord

The Jin court (Zhangzong, Cheng'an 4).

How things stand that morning

At peace with the Song since 1165; Jin garrisons watch the line.

Wealth

Frontier duties; no figures.

Military

The prefectural garrison, county archers (gongshou) and local militia; no numbers.

Threats

• A Song attempt to recover the north (none expected while the peace of 1165 holds)

Charter

None known. A Jin county seat under a magistrate; the Jin frontier garrisons (meng'an and mouke households) are settled on the land, as we recall.

Council

No council. The magistrate, the county clerks and the leading families of the district; no names known for 1 January 1200.

Communities

Buddhist and Daoist temples, the examination-class families and the trade guilds; no foreign or ethnic quarter is attested in our sources.

Fairs and markets

Market days at the county seat and temple fairs on the great festivals; no named fair is known to me.

Militia

The prefectural garrison, county archers (gongshou) and local militia; no numbers.

Walls and castle

A walled or palisaded county seat; the circuit of its walls in 1200 is not pinned.

Trade and crafts

Frontier trade with the Song (licensed and smuggled); grain.

Where the sources disagree

• On the Jin side of the rule; the realm record and the Jin prefects belong to the nch records.
• The Dili zhi (juan 85) list for Dengzhou has no Xinye (the Song had folded it into Rang); the Jin county here rests on the campaign board.

Evidence: Background knowledge of Southern Song administration and of the travel diaries of Lu You (1170) and Fan Chengda (1177), recalled and not re-read in this pass because web access closed; the rank and circuit follow the Songshi geography (juan 85 and 88, read in this pass). No prefect or magistrate for 1 January 1200 is dated in what we could reach.

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

On the map: Point only.

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.