Emperor receives Daoist talismanic registers
The Wei shu basic annals record that on the jiashen day of the first lunar month of Taiping Zhenjun 3 (AD 442) the emperor went to the Daoist altar and personally received the talismanic registers (fulu 符籙), with the full ceremonial carriage prepared and all the banners blue-green.
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 annals refer the details to the Treatise on Buddhism and Daoism (Shi Lao zhi), which was not checked here; the colour word qing (青) can mean blue or green.
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- Region
- East Asia
- Theme
- Culture and knowledge
- 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
- 太平真君 3 (太平真君三年 as numbered by the annals), lunar month 1
- 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 1 of 太平真君 3 = Julian 442-01-27 to 442-02-25, per Academia Sinica 兩千年中西曆轉換 year table(s) 太平真君3.html (sha256 b7ee25a5a93d…); the whole month lies in AD 442.
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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)
春正月甲申，帝至道壇，親受符籙，備法駕，旗幟盡青。語在釋老志。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
Spring, first month, jiashen day: the emperor went to the Daoist altar and personally received the talismanic registers; the full ceremonial carriage was prepared, and the banners were all blue-green. The account is in the Treatise on Buddhism and Daoism.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Source: Wei shu, juan 4下, zh.wikisource transcription (revision 2322627). English renderings are AI working translations, not published translations.
Exact source version
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