Li Ji captures Pyongyang
The work records Li Ji capturing Pyongyang.
What this does and does not establish
Revision 1502953, line 226. The ensuing account distinguishes the king's initial surrender from continued resistance and the eventual opening of the gates.
- 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
- Tang Gaozong, Zongzhang 1, ninth month, guisi
- 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 zztj201.wikitext lines 216–232 and both calendar files, lines 31–65. Julian 667-12-31 = Tang Gaozong Qianfeng 2, 12/11; Julian 668-12-31 = Tang Gaozong Zongzhang 1, 11/23. The autumn ninth month falls between them, in Julian 668, after the third-month era change.
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Zizhi tongjian
Sima Guang and collaborators
Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
九月，癸巳，李勣拔平壤。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
In the ninth month, on guisi, Li Ji captured Pyongyang.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Zizhi tongjian, juan 201; Wikisource contributors https://zh.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=1502953, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); project translation, adapted and share alike where applicable.
Exact source version
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