Lijiang Prefecture Gazetteer, Abridged — Volume 8
This volume compiles the "Literary Records" (Yiwen lüe) of the Lijiang Prefecture Gazetteer: an opening lament on the scarcity of literature from remote Lijiang; the Kangxi Emperor's 1702 edict admonishing students; the Yongzheng Emperor's 1724 edict admonishing prefects; and the Qianlong Emperor's 1739 edict on carefully selecting officials for the Miao frontier. It then reproduces Governor-General Gao Qizhuo's 1723 memorial recommending that Lijiang's hereditary native prefecture be converted to a regularly appointed (non-hereditary) officialdom after two successive heirs of native prefect Mu Xing died before formally succeeding him, detailing the reorganization of staff, garrisons, and taxation this entailed. The remainder consists of literary works by and about the hereditary Mu clan: a 1528 stele and a first-person account by ruler Mu Zeng (Shengbai) commemorating the clan's ancestral merit shrine and its imperially bestowed motto "Sincerity of Heart in Service to the State"; an essay praising his "Ten-Thousand Pines Hall"; and a richly detailed scenic gazetteer of the Zhishan Fuguo monastery near Snow Mountain.
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