Lijiang Prefecture Gazetteer, Abridged — Volume 4
This chapter ("Survey of Mountains and Rivers," part 2) from the Lijiang Prefecture Gazetteer, Abridged catalogs the topography, hydrology, and administrative infrastructure of Qing-dynasty Lijiang Prefecture, with historical layers reaching back through the Ming, Yuan, Tang, and Han. After a classical preface framing Lijiang's mountains and rivers as an underappreciated auspicious region, it lists over twenty mountains (including the sacred Snow/Jade Dragon Mountain and Laojun Mountain), the region's major rivers (the Jinsha/Yangtze headwaters, the Lancang/Mekong, and the Nu/Salween) with their legendary and administrative history, defensive passes and Naxi-manned frontier watch-posts, ferries and bridges (many built by the native Mu-clan chieftains), postal-relay routes to the provincial capital and into Tibet with precise mileages, abolished pre-Qing administrative units, historic and legendary sites such as the Iron-Chain Bridge and Zhuge Liang's Stone Drum, and irrigation canals serving prefectural farmland.
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