Household Registration Census under Emperor Zhenzong of Song

Timeline

1. 1010Prefectures and garrisons of the various circuits · Northern SongUnder the early Song system, prefectural judges and registrars managed household registers, submitting year-end reports to their circuit intendants listing principal and dependent households, adult males, cultivated land, and property by five grades, for the court's use in labor service and evaluation.
2. 1010Bianjing (Kaifeng) · Capital CircuitCircuit intendants aggregated household-register data by circuit and sent it to the Three Departments for verification, following the format of the Jingde Accounting Records. In Dazhong Xiangfu 2 the nationwide report was about 8.4 million households; the year 3 data was incorporated into the later Xiangfu Accounting Records.