Fall of Yongle; Xu Xi, Li Shunju and Li Ji die
The Song shi basic annals record that on a wuxu day in the ninth lunar month of Yuanfeng 5 (AD 1082) Yongle (永樂) fell, and the Supervising Secretary Xu Xi (徐禧), the palace eunuch Li Shunju (李舜舉) and the Shaanxi fiscal assistant commissioner Li Ji (李稷) died there.
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 annals' day may be the day the news was entered rather than the day of the fall; other chapters were not inspected. An earlier entry of the same month (given as context) records a Xia attack on Yongle by a force reported as 300,000 and the siege of the town; that number is as reported.
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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
- 元豐 5 (元豐五年 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 元豐 5 = Julian 1082-09-25 to 1082-10-23, per Academia Sinica 兩千年中西曆轉換 year table(s) 元豐5.html (sha256 76051768abb9…); the whole month lies in AD 1082.
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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)
戊戌，永樂陷，給事中徐禧、內侍李舜舉、陝西轉運判官李稷死之。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
On the wuxu day, Yongle fell; the Supervising Secretary Xu Xi, the palace eunuch Li Shunju and the Shaanxi fiscal assistant commissioner (zhuanyun panguan) Li Ji died there.
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
74904e5fb3ba910f7f65b05914201bbfc63146e9e283760b1a0850dc0b73b0a1Source 2 · Context for reading it
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)
九月丁亥，夏人三十萬衆寇永樂，曲珍戰不利，裨將寇偉等死之，夏人遂圍城。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
In the ninth month, on the dinghai day, a Xia host of 300,000 raided Yongle; Qu Zhen fought without success, the subordinate general Kou Wei and others died, and the Xia then besieged the town.
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
74904e5fb3ba910f7f65b05914201bbfc63146e9e283760b1a0850dc0b73b0a1Checks and changes
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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