Chang Qu
Chang Qu | |
|---|---|
| 常璩 | |
Statue of Chang Qu | |
| Cavalier In Regular Attendance (散騎常侍) | |
| In office ? – 347 | |
| Monarch | Li Shi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 291 Chengdu, Shu Commandery, Yizhou, Western Jin |
| Died | 361 (aged 70) Yizhou, Eastern Jin |
| Relations | |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Courtesy name | Daojiang (道將) |
Chang Qu (291–361), courtesy name Daojiang, was a Chinese historian of the Cheng-Han dynasty during the Sixteen Kingdoms period and the Jin dynasty (266–420). Chang Qu is best known for his magnum opus, the Chronicles of Huayang or Records of the States South of Mount Hua that he compiled between 348 and 354, the oldest extant regional history of China about his native region of Yizhou, or the modern-day Sichuan province.