Lijiang Prefecture Gazetteer, Abridged — Volume 2
This excerpt is the opening front matter of the Lijiang Prefecture Gazetteer, Abridged (麗江府志略), comprising its Compendium of Illustrations. It opens with a preface justifying detailed attention to this remote, Tibet-bordering prefecture, followed by a geographic description of Lijiang's mountain system rooted in Laojun Mountain and its river junctions, noting Kublai Khan's historic crossing and the 1723 replacement of native chieftains with regular officials. An astronomical section places Lijiang under the Jing (Well) and Gui (Ghost) lunar mansions, quoting two classical star-naming poems and giving calculations of stellar degrees and the pole's elevation. This is followed by the prefecture's boundary distances to neighboring jurisdictions, its defensive mountain-and-river topography, its cold high-altitude climate (contrasted with hot Yuanjiang), and a chronological register of omens and disasters from 1514 to 1739, including epidemics, earthquakes, hail, a fire, droughts, and auspicious grain.
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