Lijiang Prefecture Gazetteer, Abridged — Volume 7
This volume of the Lijiang Prefecture Gazetteer, Abridged (麗江府志略) opens with a 1740 postface by Instructor Wan Xianyan describing how he compiled the gazetteer while Prefect Guan Xuexuan revived Lijiang's school system. The "Schools, Abridged" section details the founding and rebuilding of the Confucian Temple, its inventory of sacrificial vessels and musical instruments, the official spirit-tablet placement diagram, and the full texts of the seasonal ritual hymns (with musical notation). It then catalogues twenty-two academies and charity schools across the prefecture, with precise records of their founding officials, endowment lands, rents, and stipends, followed by the school library's holdings and a roster of examination graduates. The "Biographies, Abridged" section profiles Yuan- and Ming-era local worthies and loyal officials of the Mu chieftain lineage, several chaste widows, three literary figures (including the Native Prefect-poet Mu Gong), sojourning scholars and a Ming loyalist-monk, Daoist and Buddhist ascetics, and two noted specialists in language and medicine.
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