The ''Chronicles of Huayang'' or ''Huayang Guo Zhi'' ( zh, t=華陽國志, s=华阳国志, first=t, l=Records of the Lands South of Mt. Hua) is the oldest extant
gazetteer
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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
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region. It was used by the
Liu Song
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historian
Pei Songzhi
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Shanxi; Chinese postal romanizati ...
in his
annotations to the ''
Records of the Three Kingdoms
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'', and by the
Tang dynasty
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prince
Li Xian when he wrote his commentaries on the ''
Book of the Later Han''.
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 '.
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
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period, with the last few covering the biographies of notable men and women in the area.
References
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External links
* ''Chronicles of Huayang'' at archive.org
Volumes 1-3Volumes 4-6
Volumes 7-9Volume 10Volumes 11-12
華陽國志:十二卷
at Google Books
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