Emperor sets out on the southern campaign
The Wei shu basic annals record that on the xinmao day of the ninth lunar month of Taiping Zhenjun 11 (AD 450) the emperor set out on a southern campaign, and that on the guisi day the crown prince campaigned north and encamped south of the desert while Yu (余), King of Wu, stayed to guard the capital.
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 course of the southern campaign is recorded in later entries, including entries of the eleventh and twelfth months not part of this item.
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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
- 太平真君 11 (太平真君十一年 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 太平真君 11 = Julian 450-10-22 to 450-11-19, per Academia Sinica 兩千年中西曆轉換 year table(s) 太平真君11.html (sha256 4533d785aed6…); the whole month lies in AD 450.
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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
The credit or link shown here was corrected after an audit of the retained source.
Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
九月辛卯，輿駕南伐。癸巳，皇太子北伐，屯于漠南，吳王余留守京都。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
Ninth month, xinmao day: the imperial carriage set out on a southern campaign. Guisi day: the crown prince campaigned north and encamped at Monan; Yu, King of Wu, stayed behind to guard the capital.
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.
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Source checked 2026-11-05. An independent AI evidence review supports this bounded, attributed wording. That review does not guarantee historical truth. How records are checked
This is a corrected version of this record. During research, before this release, an earlier version was withdrawn after independent review and replaced by this one.
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