Dou Gu and Geng Zhong march through Jiuquan frontier
The later Zizhi tongjian records Dou Gu and Geng Zhong leading twelve thousand cavalry out through the Jiuquan frontier in the second lunar month.
What this does and does not establish
Pinned Wikisource revision 2396387, juan 45. This departure is distinguished from the other columns' departures. Later battle results in the paragraph are not treated as separately dated events.
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- 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
- Yongping 16, second lunar month
- 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 the complete heading at zztj045.wikitext:153 and the explicitly second-month dispatch at line 155. Physical lines 31–32 of both calendar files give Julian AD 73-02-15 as Yongping 16, month 1, day 19 and AD 73-12-20 as month 11, day 2. The second lunar month lies wholly within these endpoints, establishing AD 73. Original quotation begins at line 155, character 5982.
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Zizhi tongjian
Sima Guang and collaborators
Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
竇固、耿忠率酒泉、敦煌、張掖甲卒及盧水羌、胡萬二千騎出酒泉塞AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
Dou Gu and Geng Zhong led armoured soldiers from Jiuquan, Dunhuang, and Zhangye, together with Lushui Qiang and Hu, twelve thousand cavalry, out through the Jiuquan frontier.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Sima Guang et al., Zizhi tongjian, juan 45; Wikisource contributors, https://zh.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=2396387; CC BY-SA 4.0; project English translations shared alike.
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