Lijiang Prefecture Gazetteer, Abridged — Volume 9
This is Juan 9 of the Lijiang Prefecture Gazetteer, Abridged (麗江府志略), comprising the section "Documents of the Present Dynasty" (本朝藝文): eleven Qing-era stele inscriptions and commemorative records documenting Lijiang's transformation after the 1723 abolition of the hereditary Mu-clan native chieftainship (改土歸流). They include Governor-General Fan Chengxun's 1691 inspection of the Jinsha River to Shigu; Kong Xingxun's founding of Lijiang's first Confucian temple and school against local resistance; successive records by prefects Yang Bi and Guan Xuanxuan on relocating and expanding the prefectural school, founding Yuhe and Xueshan academies and village charity schools, and reforming customs such as cremation burial; construction of the prefectural city wall (with its four named gates) and government offices under Yongzheng-era reforms; an almshouse for the destitute (1737); and a Dragon King temple built in 1741 after the Yuhe River's source spring repeatedly dried up. Collectively the records narrate Qing officials' efforts to install formal administration, Confucian education, and ritual order in a previously chieftain-ruled frontier region.
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