The ''Chronicles of Huayang'' or ''Huayang Guo Zhi'' () is the oldest extant

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of a region of

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. It was compiled by

Chang Qu Chang Qu () (c. 291 – c. 361 CE) was a 4th-century Chinese historian of the Cheng Han dynasty, who wrote the ''Chronicles of Huayang'' or ''Records of the States South of Mount Hua Mount Hua () is a mountain located near the city of Huayi ...

during the Jin Dynasty. It contains roughly 110,000 characters. Its contents comprise history, geography and biographies of the

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region. It was used by the

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historian Pei Songzhi in his annotations to the '' Records of the Three Kingdoms'', and by the

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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

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'' * ''Annals of the Kingdoms South of Mount Hua''

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said that ''Chronicles of Huayang'' is one of the oldest extant Chinese gazetteers, along with the ''Yue Jue Shu'' ().

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

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period, with the last few covering the biographies of notable men and women in the area.

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* ''Chronicles of Huayang'' at archive.org
Volumes 1-3Volumes 4-6

Volumes 7-9Volume 10Volumes 11-12

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