Chronicles of Huayang

The Chronicles of Huayang or Huayang Guo Zhi (traditional Chinese: 華陽かよう國こく志こころざし; simplified Chinese: 华阳国こく志こころざし; lit. 'Records of the Lands South of Mt. Hua') is the oldest extant gazetteer of a region of China. It was compiled by Chang Qu during the Jin dynasty. It contains roughly 110,000 characters. Its contents comprise history, geography and biographies of the Sichuan region. It was used by the Liu Song dynasty historian Pei Songzhi in his annotations to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, and by the Tang dynasty prince Li Xian when he wrote his commentaries on the Book of the Later Han.

Chronicles of Huayang

A page from a Ming dynasty Jiajing era edition of the Chronicles of Huayang
Author	Chang Qu
Language	Classical Chinese
Subject	Culture, history and geography of modern-day Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, Guizhou and Hanzhong
Genre	Gazetteer
Publication place	Eastern Jin
Media type	Paperback
OCLC	32726940

The Chronicles of Huayang is also rendered in English as:

• Annals of Huayang Country
• Huayang National Annals
• Records of the States South of Mount Hua
• Annals of the Kingdoms South of Mount Hua

Hong Liangji said that Chronicles of Huayang is one of the oldest extant Chinese gazetteers, along with the Yue Jue Shu.

Contents

There are twelve chapters in Chronicles of Huayang, the first four are on the history and descriptions of ancient polities of the region, while the following chapters are chronological history of the region from the Later Han to the Cheng-Han period, with the last few covering the biographies of notable men and women in the area.

#	Title	Translation	Notes
Volume 1	巴ともえ志こころざし	Records of Ba
Volume 2	漢かん中ちゅう志こころざし	Records of Hanzhong
Volume 3	蜀しょく志こころざし	Records of Shu
Volume 4	南中なんちゅう志こころざし	Records of Nanzhong	Nanzhong was also called Ningzhou or Ning Province (寧やすし州しゅう)
Volume 5	公孫こうそん劉りゅう二に牧志まきし	Biographies of Gongsun and the two Governor Lius	Gongsun Shu, Liu Yan, Liu Zhang
Volume 6	劉りゅう先さき主しゅ志こころざし	Biography of the Former Lord Liu	Liu Bei
Volume 7	劉りゅう後ご主しゅ志こころざし	Biography of the Later Lord Liu	Liu Shan
Volume 8	大だい同志どうし	Records of the Great Unity	Records of events in the late Three Kingdoms period and the early Jin Dynasty
Volume 9	李り特とく雄ゆう期き壽ことぶき勢ぜい志こころざし	Biographies of Li Te, Li Xiong, Li Qi, Li Shou and Li Shi	Li Te, Li Xiong, Li Qi, Li Shou, Li Shi
Volume 10	先賢せんけん士し女おんな總そう讚たたえ論ろん	Overall discussion on the former worthies and exemplary men and women	Some notable persons who lived before the Jin Dynasty
Volume 11	後こう賢志けんじ	Biographies of later worthies	Some notable persons who lived during the Jin Dynasty
Volume 12	序じょ志こころざし	Appendix	Some notable men and women from Yi, Liang and Ning provinces who lived during the Western Han Dynasty

References

• Theobald, Ulrich. "Huayang guo zhi 華陽かよう國こく志こころざし". Chinaknowledge.

External links

• (in Chinese) Chronicles of Huayang at archive.org: Volumes 1-3, Volumes 4-6, Volumes 7-9, Volume 10, Volumes 11-12
• 華陽かよう國こく志こころざし:十じゅう二に卷かん at Google Books