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. 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

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in his annotations to the ''

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''. 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'' Hong Liangji 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
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Volumes 7-9Volume 10Volumes 11-12

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