Champa rice seed given out in drought
The Song shi basic annals record that in the fifth lunar month of Dazhong Xiangfu 5 (AD 1012), with drought in Jiang, Huai and Liang-Zhe (江、淮、兩浙), seed of Champa rice (占城稻) was given out and the people were taught to plant it.
What this does and does not establish
The Song shi is a Yuan-compiled (1343-45) official history drawing on Song court records; the English is an AI working translation. The annals do not state the quantity of seed or who distributed it; 占城 is conventionally Champa in present-day central Vietnam.
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- Region
- East Asia
- Theme
- Environment, health and technology
- 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
- 大中祥符 5 (大中祥符五年 as numbered by the annals), lunar month 5
- How we use it
- Year assigned from the lunar month under which the annals enter the item; the sexagenary day was not converted to a Julian day.
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
Lunar month 5 of 大中祥符 5 = Julian 1012-05-24 to 1012-06-21, per Academia Sinica 兩千年中西曆轉換 year table(s) 大中祥符5.html (sha256 972f6f3a1ba5…); the whole month lies in AD 1012.
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Song shi (History of Song), basic annals
Toghto (脫脫) et al., Yuan court historiographers
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Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
辛未，江、淮、兩浙旱，給占城稻種，教民種之。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
On the xinwei day, there being drought in Jiang, Huai and Liang-Zhe, seed of Champa rice was given out and the people were taught to plant it.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Source: Song shi, juan 8, zh.wikisource transcription (revision 7908326). English renderings are AI working translations, not published translations.
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