The Tangut law code in force under Huanzong in 1200, in twenty chapters: offices and ranks, the army and its registers, the frontier garrisons, taxation, irrigation, markets, Buddhist and Daoist clergy, slaves, horses and the treatment of Tibetans, Uyghurs and Chinese within the state. It is the fullest internal evidence for how Xia was governed in the generation before the Mongol wars. The manuscript and print fragments from Khara-Khoto are in St Petersburg; the text is known through Kychanov's Russian edition and the Chinese translation of 2000.
About this source
- Title
- Tiansheng gaijiu xinding lüling (天盛改舊新定律令)
- Author
- The Xia state under Emperor Renzong
- Author's dates
- Renzong reigned 1139 to 1193
- Written
- promulgated between 1149 and 1169; the surviving printed copies come from Khara-Khoto
- Language
- Tangut
- Covers
- the law in force in the Xia state from the Tiansheng era; still the code in 1200
- Kind
- Law
No free online text or translation was found; Kychanov's edition and the 2000 Chinese translation are under copyright. The Khara-Khoto Tangut collection is held at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, St Petersburg. The search budget for this task ran out before the code could be searched separately; this entry is bibliographic only.
Where to read it
Editions
- E. I. Kychanov, Izmenennyi i zanovo utverzhdennyi kodeks deviza tsarstvovaniya Nebesnoe protsvetanie (1149 to 1169), 4 vols (Moscow, 1987 to 1989), Tangut text with Russian translation (not freely online)
- Shi Jinbo, Nie Hongyin and Bai Bin, Tiansheng gaijiu xinding lüling (Beijing, 2000), Chinese translation (not freely online)