Edict demarcating the boundary with Jiaozhi
The Song shi basic annals record that on a wuzi day in the tenth lunar month of Yuanfeng 7 (AD 1084) an edict ordered the demarcation of the boundary with Jiaozhi (交阯), granting it six counties and two dong (峒).
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 entry does not name the counties or the dong (峒, settlements of non-Han peoples; rendering approximate), nor describe the negotiation; other chapters were not inspected.
- 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
- 元豐 7 (元豐七年 as numbered by the annals), lunar month 10
- 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 10 of 元豐 7 = Julian 1084-11-01 to 1084-11-30, per Academia Sinica 兩千年中西曆轉換 year table(s) 元豐7.html (sha256 91926f1af568…); the whole month lies in AD 1084.
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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
The credit or link shown here was corrected after an audit of the retained source.
Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
戊子，詔分畫交阯界，以六縣二峒賜之。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
On the wuzi day, an edict [ordered] the demarcation of the boundary with Jiaozhi, granting it six counties and two dong.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Source: Song shi, juan 16, zh.wikisource transcription (revision 2285107). English renderings are AI working translations, not published translations.
Exact source version
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Source checked 2026-11-04. An independent AI evidence review supports this bounded, attributed wording. That review does not guarantee historical truth. How records are checked
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