Huang Chao captures Guangzhou
The Zizhi tongjian states that Huang Chao attacked Guangzhou and captured it that same day in the ninth month.
What this does and does not establish
Wikisource raw revision 2110542. Huang Chao is the explicit subject earlier in the same sentence. The preceding Guangzhou appointment requests are separate from the narrated attack; the following capture of Li Tiao supports the account of the city's fall.
- 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
- Qianfu 6, ninth month
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
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Dating notes from the research record
Year heading: zztj253.wikitext, line 137; explicit ninth-month heading and attack: line 169. Examined calendar_headers and sinica-878-12-31.html and sinica-879-12-31.html, lines 31–32 and 65: 878-12-31 is Qianfu 5, month 12, day 4; 879-12-31 is Qianfu 6, month 11, day 15. Qianfu 6 month 9 lies between these boundaries, within Julian AD 879. The source supplies no day designation. Original quotation begins at line 169, character 7183.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Zizhi tongjian
Sima Guang and collaborators
Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
急攻廣州，即日陷之AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
He fiercely attacked Guangzhou and captured it that very day.
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