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The Jianyan yilai xinian yaolu 建炎以來繫年要錄 "An Annual Record of the Most Important Events since the Jianyan Period (1127-1130)" is a document of event history during the begin of the Southern Song (Nansong) 南宋 period, in 200 "scrolls" (juan 卷), written by Li Xinchuan 李心傳.
Li Xinchuan's father served as archivist in the southern capital Lin'an 臨安 (modern Hangzhou 杭州/Zhejiang), and Xinchuan therefore took an early interest in history and its background. He started to compose a large book on the History of the first decades of the Southern Song period that covered the years from the flight of the Song court to the south in 1127 until 1162. Li Xinchuan used a vast treasure of sources from official documents to private writings by various state officials. The Xinian yaolu is written in the same style as Li Tao's 李燾 Xu Zizhi tongjian changbian 續資治通鑑長編 "Sequel to the Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government in Detailed Chapters". It covers many aspects of politcs, military affairs, economy and culture during the reign of emperor Song Gaozong 宋高宗 (r. 1127-1162) and contains many reports about the relationship between the Song empire and its northern neighbour, the Jurchen Jin 金 empire. As the Xinian yaolu is not a pure collection of original sources but rather rewrites and reports events and the content of documentary sources, it is necessary to use it as a supplement to the book Sanchao beimeng huibian 三朝北盟會編 "Collection of Documents Concerning Alliances with the North During the Three Periods"
" by Xu Mengxin 徐夢莘 that reports much more directly on the base of primary sources.
While the practical politics and outcomings of political decisions are described in the Xinian yaolu it is interesting to compare it with and to use it as a complement to Li Xinchuan's second great book called Jianyan yilai chaoye zaji 建炎以來朝野雜記 "Miscellaneous Notes on Inner and Outer Policy Since the Jianyan Period" which is a large encyclopedia on statecraft of the early Southern Song court.
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