Imperial deposition at Chongde front hall
The Zizhi tongjian reports that Dong Zhuo assembled officials at Chongde front hall and coerced the empress dowager into formally deposing the young emperor.
What this does and does not establish
Later Northern Song chronicle by Sima Guang; pinned Wikisource revision 2594134. The ninth-month heading is at line 98. Nearby speeches oppose the deposition and dispute its justification; the quoted imperial accusations are not treated as established misconduct. No independent contradictory account is supplied.
- 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
- Zhongping 6 annual section, ninth lunar month, jiaxu
- 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 zztj059.wikitext governing annual heading at line 51 and event context at lines 86–114, including the ninth-month heading at line 98. Rows 31–32 of sinica-189-02-15.html equate AD 189 February 15 with Zhongping 6, month 1, day 12; the same rows of sinica-189-12-20.html equate AD 189 December 20 with Yonghan 1, month 11, day 25. The ninth-month event lies strictly between these endpoints despite the era-name changes, establishing civil AD 189. Original quotation begins at line 100, character 6618.
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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)
甲戌，卓復會群僚於崇德前殿，遂脅太后策廢少帝，AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
On jiaxu, Zhuo again assembled the officials at Chongde front hall and then coerced the empress dowager into deposing the young emperor by a formal decree,
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Sima Guang et al., Zizhi tongjian, juan 59; Wikisource contributors, https://zh.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=2594134; CC BY-SA 4.0; project English translations shared alike.
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