Death of the Grand Empress Dowager
The Song shi basic annals record that in the ninth lunar month of Yuanyou 8 (AD 1093), on the wuyin day, the Grand Empress Dowager (太皇太后) died.
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 span does not name her; the annals later in the same year enter her posthumous title as Empress Xuanren Shenglie (宣仁聖烈皇后).
- 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
- 元祐 8 (元祐八年 as numbered by the annals), lunar month 9
- 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 9 of 元祐 8 = Julian 1093-09-24 to 1093-10-22, per Academia Sinica 兩千年中西曆轉換 year table(s) 元祐8.html (sha256 92799a355db0…); the whole month lies in AD 1093.
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Sources and quoted text
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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)
九月戊寅，太皇太后崩。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
Ninth month, wuyin: the Grand Empress Dowager died.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Source: Song shi, juan 17, zh.wikisource transcription (revision 7908323). English renderings are AI working translations, not published translations.
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