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This book is a treatise collection on international symposium about historical records, which is sponsored by Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of Chinese Academy of Social sciences. This book was divided into 5 research topics: Tangut Buddhist records, Tangut Linguistics and secular records, Tangut history and archaeology and historical records of Liao dynasty. The incision of this book is Blackwater city, and it made comprehensive study to many ancient historical records of northern China from different perspectives, the book also made discussion about historical records to Song dynasty, Liao, Jin and Yuan dynasty.