Frontier town · Chieftaincies of the south and south-west, on the loose rein · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Zhuti

The Han Zhuti, now the Wumeng basin, on the road between Qujing and the Song at Yibin.

The Wumeng bu are among the thirty-seven; the Yuan will set up the Wumeng circuit in 1278.

Who holds it

Title
Governor of the town for its lord
Since
not known
Born
not known
Confidence
low

Lord in 1200

The Wumeng chiefs

Militia

levies of the fu; no figure

Trade and crafts

Horses; the road.

Where the sources disagree

  • Map ruling (sheet builder, pass 1): Zhaotong (Zhuti) and Huize are drawn as the ground of the native chiefs, as this record says. The South China researcher anchors both as Dali; the Yunnan researcher owns this ground and anchors them as chiefs, and asked the lead to choose between the two. Undo: two lines in config.py (GM_RULINGS.md, part 2).

Evidence: A Tang-period note and the lists.

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.

Sources and studies

  1. Chinese Wikipedia, 昭通市 (history section, read this session)
  2. Chinese Wikipedia, 大理国 (read this session: the eight fu, four jun, four zhen and thirty-seven bu; it cites Yang Shen's Dian zai ji, Wang Song's Yunnan beizhengzhi, Ni Lu's Nanzhao yeshi, the Baigu tongji qianshu)
  3. OMNIA board, notes_msy.txt and places_msy.tsv (a lead, not a source)

Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.