Completion of the Anshan Canal excavation
The Yuan shi records completion of the excavation of the Anshan Canal, followed by its imperial naming as the Huitong River.
What this does and does not establish
元史/卷015, Wikisource revision 2087320; governing year 至元二十六年. The completion clause follows the seventh-month 辛巳 heading without a new day marker. The neighboring officials’ claim of unprecedented achievement is not adopted here.
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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
- 至元二十六年七月, under 辛巳
- 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 yuan015.wikitext, year opening line 33 and month entries lines 33–47, including the complete seventh-month passage at line 45. calendar_headers and rows in sinica-1288-12-31.html and sinica-1289-12-31.html identify 1288-12-31 as 至元25年12月7日 and 1289-12-31 as 至元26年11月18日. 至元26年七月 is consequently within Julian AD 1289. Original quotation begins at line 45, character 10532.
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Yuan shi (History of Yuan), basic annals
Song Lian et al., Ming court historians
Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
開安山渠成，AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
The excavation of the Anshan Canal was completed.
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