Gaozong enthroned at Yingtian
The Song shi records Gaozong's enthronement at the prefectural headquarters in Yingtian on the first day of the fifth month.
What this does and does not establish
Gaozong annals, pinned Wikisource revision 7908325; Yingtian is established by the preceding arrival and preparations in line 29. The accession ceremony is treated as one event.
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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
- 建炎元年五月庚寅朔
- 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 song024.wikitext's 建炎元年 heading at line 21, the fourth-month arrival at 應天府 and altar preparations at line 29, and the fifth-month accession at line 31. Also read song023.wikitext's 靖康二年 heading at line 39 and first-month paragraph at line 41. Calendar headers and tables in sinica-1126-12-31.html and sinica-1127-12-31.html lines 31–65 bound this sequence by 靖康元年閏十一月十六日 and 建炎元年十一月二十六日. The fifth-month event lies in Julian AD 1127; the mapping does not rely solely on the accession's era-renaming clause. Original quotation begins at line 31, character 2371.
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Song shi (History of Song), basic annals
Toghto (脫脫) et al., Yuan court historiographers
Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
五月庚寅朔，帝登壇受命，禮畢慟哭，遙謝二帝，即位於府治。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
In the fifth month, on gengyin, the first day, the emperor ascended the altar to receive the mandate; when the rites ended, he wept bitterly, offered thanks from afar to the two emperors, and ascended the throne at the prefectural headquarters.
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