Death of Grand Empress Dowager Feng
The Wei shu basic annals record that on the guichou day of the ninth lunar month of Taihe 14 (AD 490) the Grand Empress Dowager, née Feng (馮氏), died.
What this does and does not establish
An official history compiled 551-554 by Wei Shou under the Northern Qi from Northern Wei records; the English is an AI working translation. The same annals record her burial at the Yonggu mausoleum on the guiyou day of the tenth month and give her title there as Wenming (文明) Grand Empress Dowager.
- 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
- 太和 14 (太和十四年 as numbered by the annals), lunar month 9
- How we use it
- Year assigned from the lunar month under which the Wei shu 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 9 of 太和 14 = Julian 490-09-30 to 490-10-28, per Academia Sinica 兩千年中西曆轉換 year table(s) 太和14.html (sha256 7504ee1f6528…); the whole month lies in AD 490.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Wei shu (Book of Wei), basic annals
Wei Shou (魏收), Northern Qi court historian
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Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
九月癸丑，太皇太后馮氏崩。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
Ninth month, guichou day: the Grand Empress Dowager, née Feng, died.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Source: Wei shu, juan 7下, zh.wikisource transcription (revision 2460667). English renderings are AI working translations, not published translations.
Exact source version
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