Yongfeng Polder Granted to Qin Hui, 1153 CE

Date and content

In 1153 CE, the twenty-third year of the Shaoxing era, the Yongfeng Polder was granted to Qin Hui. The entry itself is one sentence, followed by the compiler's own note explaining why the affair was included:

绍兴二十三年癸酉，以永丰圩田赐秦桧。旧志云，郡府志载此事，而不专言溧水。今溧水有永丰圩，故采入以备详考。后孝宗赐都统司云云，同此。

Translated: In the twenty-third year of the Shaoxing era, the Yongfeng Polder was granted to Qin Hui. The old gazetteer says that the commandery and prefectural gazetteers record this affair, but do not speak of Lishui in particular. Lishui now has the Yongfeng Polder, so the entry is taken in for detailed examination. The later grant to the commandant's office under Emperor Xiaozong is treated in the same way. This is a translation, not the words of the original.

Everything after "the old gazetteer says" is the compiler's note. It states that the entry was not in the earlier gazetteer, that it was taken in because a polder of the name lay in Lishui, and that the purpose was further examination rather than a settled conclusion.

Consequences

The Yongfeng Polder passed to Qin Hui. The gazetteer gives no acreage and no boundaries. The same note says that the grant to the commandant's office in 1165, the first year of the Qiandao era, was included on the same ground.

Uncertainties

The compiler's note says explicitly that the affair is recorded in the commandery and prefectural gazetteers without being tied to Lishui, and that the ground for inclusion was simply that Lishui had a polder of that name. It does not establish that the polder in those gazetteers is the one in Lishui, and it says nothing of the extent of the grant. The confidence level is therefore set to medium.