Lijiang Prefecture Gazetteer, Abridged — Volume 3
This is Juan Three of the Lijiang Prefecture Gazetteer, Abridged, comprising the "Abridged Record of Administrative Establishment." It traces Lijiang's administrative lineage from the legendary Five Emperors through Han commanderies, the Nanzhao and Dali kingdoms, Yuan conquest by Kublai Khan, Ming enfeoffment of the native Mu clan as hereditary prefects, and the 1723 Qing conversion from native rule to regular administration (gaitu guiliu). It reproduces in full the Board of Civil Appointments' 1723 memorial establishing the new prefect, registrar, garrison troops, and salaries, and the emperor's rescript approving it. It then inventories the prefecture's Qianlong-era built environment: the earthen city wall and its four named gates, granaries and community storehouses, government offices, major markets (Dayan, Baisha, Shuhe, Qihe), a lecture hall, an agricultural-encouragement office, a poorhouse, a drill ground, and the enumeration of the prefecture's village wards (li) and outlying administrative leagues (yue) with their distances and borders.
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