Jùjīn

Jujin was a Yuan-founded department retained by the Ming under Lijiang. The early-sixteenth-century Yunnan gazetteer placed it northwest of the prefectural seat, with the Jinsha River running through its country. It described the department as a strategic approach towards the Tibetan border and the northern iron-bridge routes.

The same gazetteer records that Jujin's government compound was built in 1391. It contained a clerk's hall, with pavilions for public moral instruction outside, as well as a welfare institution and a reserve granary. Such details reveal the offices and facilities through which Ming-era local government presented itself in this mountain district. The gazetteer also singled out pine nuts as a product of Jujin, a small local detail beside its account of frontier administration.