Liáng Jì 涼記
Record of Liang by 段龜龍
About the work
Liáng Jì 涼記 (also titled Duàn Guīlóng Liáng Jì 段龜龍涼記) is a jíyìběn reconstruction of a history of one or more of the Liáng 涼 states of the Sixteen Kingdoms period. The author, Duàn Guīlóng 段龜龍, was a historian-official of the Běi Liáng 北涼 state (397–439 CE). The reconstruction preserves approximately 710 lines of text.
Tiyao
No tiyao found in source. This is a jíyìběn reconstruction.
Abstract
The Liáng states (Qián Liáng 前涼, Hòu Liáng 後涼, Nán Liáng 南涼, Běi Liáng 北涼, and Xī Liáng 西涼) successively controlled the Gānsù corridor during the fourth and fifth centuries. Běi Liáng, founded by the Xiongnu chieftain Jǔqú Méngxùn 沮渠蒙遜, was the last and most powerful of these, a major center of Buddhist translation activity before its conquest by the Northern Wei in 439 CE. Duàn Guīlóng’s Liáng Jì is recorded in the Suí Shū 隋書 bibliography in 10 juǎn.
The jíyìběn preserves significantly more material than many other Sixteen Kingdoms jíyìběn texts, including records of Jǔqú rule, the region’s Buddhist culture, and the complex geopolitics of the Hexi corridor — a crucial conduit for cultural transmission between China and Central Asia. Citations are drawn from the Tàipíng Yùlǎn 太平御覽, the Běitáng Shūchāo 北堂書鈔, and other standard sources.
Translations and research
No substantial secondary literature located.