殿前指揮使直 · 內殿直
Close palace guard units anchor the opening cluster of the roster.
DONGJING MENG HUA LU / 卷四
軍頭司
The city in uniform.
Meng begins Volume IV with a military catalog that keeps changing function as it unfolds. Guards train and fight; other units ride, play music, carry imperial objects, build, repair, supply, sweep and serve. The roster is also chronologically layered, so this page treats it as remembered urban capacity rather than a single frozen organization chart.
READ THE ROSTER BY FUNCTION ↓00 / VOLUME IV OPENS
Uniform does not mean one job.
守 · 閱 · 樂 · 載 · 作 · 供 · 掃
Entry 28 begins with combat inspection and daily drill, then spreads outward into court ceremony, transport, workshops, food supply and maintenance. In Meng's memory, military registration reaches deep into the practical machinery of the capital.
The final phrase, 「記省不盡」, also sets the epistemic tone: this is a recalled list with acknowledged limits.
01 / CAPABILITY MAP
Read the roster by what people do.
This grouping is Galok editorial synthesis. It helps expose the functional range inside Meng's catalog while leaving the original sequence and institutional names visible below.
御龍諸直
Some protect the ruler; others carry imperial objects or serve the moving court.
習馭直 · 騎御馬
The roster includes units associated with training and handling imperial horses.
鈞容直
A military music corps accompanying imperial movement and ceremonial display.
招箭班 · 金槍班
Weapon skill belongs to defense, display and courtly performance as well as combat readiness.
天武 · 捧日 · 龍衛 · 神衛
Meng calls them the 上四軍 and says each had twenty commands.
飛山 · 床子弩 · 廣固
Artillery-type specialist units sit beside Guanggu troops created for capital construction work.
街道司諸司
Road repair, drainage, cleaning, traffic and market control connect uniformed labor to ordinary urban management.
清衛 · 剩員
Guard categories can include sweeping, garden service, reception and music; Qingwei is especially date-sensitive.
修內司 · 八作司 · 廣固作坊
Palace repair and multiple craft divisions turn military manpower into a construction system.
內酒坊 · 法酒庫 · 牛羊司 · 油醋庫
Wine, animals, oil, vinegar and related stores show supply work embedded in the wider roster.
儀鸞司 · 武嚴 · 輦官 · 車子院
Tents, warning signals, liturgical movement, sedan chairs and vehicles prepare the court to appear in public.
02 / URBAN STATE
The roster spans more than one city-state.
Entry 28 cannot safely be plotted as a single-date table. Several units were created, reorganized or abolished during Meng's lifetime; at least one name raises a post-Northern-Song problem in the transmitted text.
廣固 was established under Huizong for capital works.
Guanggu staffing was increased, reinforcing its role in urban construction labor.
The old 六軍 and selected Six Armies were merged into Guangxiao, so the remembered label carries a date problem after this point.
清衛 was abolished late in the Northern Song, giving the roster another visible chronological seam.
銀槍班 is recorded in the dynastic military history as a Southern Song creation. Its presence here requires collation, not silent harmonization.
1. The chapter opens with inspection and performance of skill.
軍頭司每旬休，按閱內等子、相撲手、劍棒手格鬥。
WORKING TRANSLATION
On the ten-day rest cycle, the Military Head Office inspected palace guards, wrestlers and sword-and-staff fighters in combat practice.
GALOK READING
Volume IV therefore begins with bodies under inspection: skill is watched, tested and displayed before the catalog expands into the city's wider institutional capacity.
諸軍營：殿前指揮使直在禁中，有左右班。內殿直、散員、散都頭、散直、散指揮。御龍左右直（係打御從物）、御龍骨朵子直、弓箭直、弩直。習馭直、騎御馬。鈞容直。招箭班、金槍班、銀槍班、殿侍諸軍東西五班、常入祗候。每日教閱野戰。每遇諸路解到武藝人，對御格鬥。
WORKING TRANSLATION
Meng moves rapidly through palace guards, imperial attendants, archers, crossbowmen, horse units, military musicians and weapon specialists. Daily field drill and martial demonstrations before the emperor keep the opening emphasis on practiced performance.
SOURCE CALIBRATION
The name 銀槍班 creates a chronology problem. The modern annotated edition flags it as likely Southern Song; the site therefore keeps the transmitted reading visible and marks the contradiction.
天武、捧日、龍衛、神衛，各二十指揮，謂之「上四軍」，不出戍。驍騎、雲騎、拱聖、龍猛、龍騎，各十指揮。
WORKING TRANSLATION
The Tianwu, Pengri, Longwei and Shenwei were each remembered as twenty commands and called the Upper Four Armies. Meng then lists further cavalry formations as ten commands each.
NUMBER CAUTION
These numbers belong to Meng's remembered roster. Modern institutional records do not align neatly with every figure, so the page keeps them as textual claims rather than calculating a total garrison population.
殿前司、步軍司有虎翼，各二十指揮；虎翼水軍、宣武，各十五指揮。神勇、廣勇，各十指揮。飛山、床子弩、雄武、廣固等指揮。諸司則宣效、六軍、武肅、武和、街道司諸司。諸軍指揮，動以百數。
WORKING TRANSLATION
The list continues through infantry, water troops, specialist weapons, Guanggu and units attached to offices including the Street Office. By this point the roster is already describing more than battlefield force.
GALOK READING
Street repair, drainage, cleaning and market management sit beside military labels. Uniform becomes one of the ways the capital organizes labor.
其餘工匠：修內司、八作司、廣固作坊、後苑作坊、書藝局、綾錦院、文繡院、內酒坊、法酒庫、牛羊司、油醋庫、儀鸞司、翰林司、喝探、武嚴、輦官、車子院、皇城司親從官、親事官、上下宮、皇城黃皂院子、滌除，各有指揮，記省不盡。
WORKING TRANSLATION
The catalog ends in workshops, textile production, wine and food supply, tents and ceremonial setup, warning and escort personnel, sedan-chair bearers, vehicle services, palace attendants and cleaning labor. Each had its own command; Meng says his memory cannot exhaust the list.
MEMORY LIMIT
記省不盡 is the most important methodological phrase on the page. The roster declares its own incompleteness.
Keep the seams visible.
Dynastic military history places Silver Spear units in the Southern Song. The transmitted reading remains visible pending witness-level collation.
Historical editions differ at this unit name. Entry 28 should preserve the variant trail instead of normalizing the phrase into one clean label.
The modern annotated edition reports a base-text error at this point and emends 皇城官 to 皇城司. The correction belongs in the source trail.
Meng does not close with a total, a table or an institutional diagram. He stops after one more cascade of names and admits that recollection cannot contain them all.
各有指揮，記省不盡。05 / SOURCE TRAIL
Text first. Annotation stays visible.
The primary text is read against Yang Chunqiao's 2020 annotated edition and the institutional sources cited there, including the dynastic military, office, ritual and music histories. Chronology labels on this page indicate attested institutional changes; unresolved readings remain marked as problems.