Dated extracts from the Song government's own statute collections, arranged by office. For 1200 it preserves memorials and edicts that the Song shi condenses: appointments and dismissals during the Qingyuan proscription, salt and tea revenues, grain prices, the garrisons on the Huai and in Sichuan, maritime trade regulations at Quanzhou and Mingzhou, and the records of embassies with the Jin, Goryeo, Dai Viet, Champa and the southern chiefs (the Fanyi sections). It is fragmentary and disordered but it is primary and contemporary where the Song shi is derivative.
About this source
- Title
- Song huiyao jigao (宋會要輯稿)
- Author
- 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
- Author's dates
- Xu Song 1781 to 1848
- Written
- 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
- Language
- Chinese
- Covers
- 960 to about 1220, by department: ritual, offices, finance, army, punishments, foreign relations and more
- Kind
- Administrative records
The online transcriptions are partial; the 1936 facsimile and the 2014 edition are the texts of record. No translation.
Where to read it
Editions
- Liu Lin and others (eds), Song huiyao jigao, Shanghai Guji, 16 vols (2014), the first fully punctuated edition (not freely online)
Read it online
- Song huiyao jigao, juan 1, on Chinese Wikisource (transcription in progress)
- Song huiyao jigao, fascicle 19 (Rites 20), at the Chinese Text Project