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Chronicles of Huayang
Chinese gazetteer
Chinese gazetteer
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Chronicles of Huayang |
| image | File:ZHSY100227 華陽國志 晉常璩撰 明嘉靖四十二年張佳胤刻本.pdf |
| image_caption | A page from a Ming dynasty Jiajing era edition of the Chronicles of Huayang |
| author | Chang Qu |
| country | Eastern Jin |
| language | Classical Chinese |
| subject | Culture, history and geography of modern-day Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, |
| Guizhou and Hanzhong | |
| genre | Gazetteer |
| media_type | Paperback |
| oclc | 32726940 |
Guizhou and Hanzhong The Chronicles of Huayang or Huayang Guo Zhi () is the oldest extant gazetteer of a region of China. It was compiled by Chang Qu during the Jin dynasty. It contains roughly 110,000 characters. Its contents comprise history, geography and biographies of the Sichuan and Chongqing region. It was used by the Liu Song historian Pei Songzhi in his annotations to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, and by the Tang dynasty prince Li Xian when he wrote his commentaries on the Book of the Later Han.
The Chronicles of Huayang is also rendered in English as:
- Annals of Huayang Country
- Huayang National Annals
- Records of the States South of Mount Hua
- Annals of the Kingdoms South of Mount Hua
Hong Liangji said that Chronicles of Huayang is one of the oldest extant Chinese gazetteers, along with the **.
Contents
There are twelve chapters in Chronicles of Huayang, the first four are on the history and descriptions of ancient polities of the region, while the following chapters are chronological history of the region from the Later Han to the Cheng-Han period, with the last few covering the biographies of notable men and women in the area.
| # | Title | Translation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Volume 1 | 巴志 | Records of Ba | |
| Volume 2 | 漢中志 | Records of Hanzhong | |
| Volume 3 | 蜀志 | Records of Shu | |
| Volume 4 | 南中志 | Records of Nanzhong | Nanzhong was also called Ningzhou or Ning Province (寧州) |
| Volume 5 | 公孫劉二牧志 | Biographies of Gongsun and the two Governor Lius | Gongsun Shu, Liu Yan, Liu Zhang |
| Volume 6 | 劉先主志 | Biography of the Former Lord Liu | Liu Bei |
| Volume 7 | 劉後主志 | Biography of the Later Lord Liu | Liu Shan |
| Volume 8 | 大同志 | Records of the Great Unity | Records of events in the late Three Kingdoms period and the early Jin Dynasty |
| Volume 9 | 李特雄期壽勢志 | Biographies of Li Te, Li Xiong, Li Qi, Li Shou and Li Shi | Li Te, Li Xiong, Li Qi, Li Shou, Li Shi |
| Volume 10 | 先賢士女總讚論 | Overall discussion on the former worthies and exemplary men and women | Some notable persons who lived before the Jin Dynasty |
| Volume 11 | 後賢志 | Biographies of later worthies | Some notable persons who lived during the Jin Dynasty |
| Volume 12 | 序志 | Appendix | Some notable men and women from Yi, Liang and Ning provinces who lived during the Western Han Dynasty |
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