Chronicles of Huayang

The Chronicles of Huayang or Huayang Guo Zhi (traditional Chinese: 華陽國志; simplified Chinese: 华阳国志; lit. 'Records of the Lands South of Mt. Hua') 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 region. It was used by the Liu Song dynasty 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 Yue Jue Shu.

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.

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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 NanzhongNanzhong was also called Ningzhou or Ning Province (寧州)
Volume 5公孫劉二牧志Biographies of Gongsun and the two Governor LiusGongsun Shu, Liu Yan, Liu Zhang
Volume 6劉先主志Biography of the Former Lord LiuLiu Bei
Volume 7劉後主志Biography of the Later Lord LiuLiu Shan
Volume 8大同志Records of the Great UnityRecords 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 ShiLi 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 womenSome notable persons who lived before the Jin Dynasty
Volume 11後賢志Biographies of later worthiesSome notable persons who lived during the Jin Dynasty
Volume 12序志AppendixSome notable men and women from Yi, Liang and Ning provinces who lived during the Western Han Dynasty

References
  • Theobald, Ulrich. "Huayang guo zhi 華陽國志". Chinaknowledge.
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