Cao Pi assumes the imperial title at Fanyang
The Zizhi tongjian records Cao Pi assuming the imperial position at an altar at Fanyang.
What this does and does not establish
Wikisource revision 2457431; the same physical row establishes Fanyang as the altar's site. The claim is limited to the accession occurrence.
- Read through an AI working translation.
- 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
- Yankang first year, lunar month 10, xinwei; inauguration of Huangchu
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
The date reference is this project’s reading of the source’s date. It may give an era name, a reign or a calendar in a normalised form rather than in the source’s own words; the dating notes say what the source prints.
Dating notes from the research record
Read zztj069.wikitext row 15 and rows 59–65, including the explicit winter tenth-month date line. Read sinica-220-01-08.html and sinica-220-12-27.html rows 31–32: the endpoints are Jian'an 24 jihai 11/15 and Huangchu 1 gengzi 11/15. The latter file's rows 35–47 place gengzi 10/19–10/30 in December 220 before 11/1 on December 13. The accession in gengzi month 10 therefore belongs to civil AD 220. Original quotation begins at line 61, character 2747.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Zizhi tongjian
Sima Guang and collaborators
Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
乃為壇於繁陽，辛未，升壇受璽綬，即皇帝位，AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
Then an altar was built at Fanyang; on xinwei, he ascended the altar, received the imperial seal and cord, and assumed the imperial position,
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Sima Guang et al., Zizhi tongjian, juan 69; Wikisource contributors, https://zh.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=2457431; CC BY-SA 4.0; project English translations shared alike.
Exact source version
99a7e6e86e58d07e8d99cc9661bbf588c1d851ffbd960a661a03872897ec1a04Checks and changes
Source checked 2026-11-11. An independent AI evidence review supports this bounded, attributed wording. That review does not guarantee historical truth. How records are checked
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Revision s201_zztj069_events_220_220_2
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