Bi approaches the Wuyuan frontier
The Zizhi tongjian reports that Bi approached the Wuyuan frontier barrier after the leaders of eight Xiongnu divisions agreed to establish him as Huhanye Chanyu.
What this does and does not establish
Pinned Wikisource revision 2356198. Row 35 places the approach at Wuyuan; 日逐王 is Bi’s title. The following promise to defend against northern enemies expresses an intention. Row 27 supplies earlier background under 初; row 39 separately reports Bi’s assumption of the southern chanyu title in the tenth month.
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- Region
- East Asia
- Theme
- Politics and institutions
- Kind of record
- Placed in a year. A source places this in one year. It is listed under that year; no day precision is invented.
How it is dated
- Date reference
- 建武二十四年，春正月
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
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Dating notes from the research record
Read zztj044.wikitext physical rows 25–60: row 31 heads Jianwu 24 (AD 48), row 33 supplies spring, first month, and row 35 precedes the next month heading at row 37. Read physical rows 31–32 of both calendar files: sinica-48-01-06.html equates Julian AD 48 January 6 with Jianwu 23, month 12, day 2; sinica-48-11-20.html equates Julian AD 48 November 20 with Jianwu 24, month 10, day 26. These bounds enclose the complete first lunar month and spring of Jianwu 24 within civil AD 48; the event’s exact day is unspecified. Original quotation begins at line 35, character 768.
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Zizhi tongjian
Sima Guang and collaborators
Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
匈奴八部大人共議立日逐王比為呼韓邪單于，款五原塞AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
The leaders of the eight Xiongnu divisions jointly deliberated on establishing Bi, the Rizhu King, as Huhanye Chanyu; he approached the Wuyuan frontier barrier.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Sima Guang et al., Zizhi tongjian, juan 44; Wikisource contributors, https://zh.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=2356198; CC BY-SA 4.0; project English translations shared alike.
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