Li Jiqian takes Lingzhou
The Song shi basic annals record that in the third lunar month of Xianping 5 (AD 1002) Li Jiqian (李繼遷) captured Lingzhou (靈州), and its prefect Pei Ji (裴濟) 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 give no details of the siege or of the circumstances of Pei Ji's death.
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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
- 咸平 5 (咸平五年 as numbered by the annals), lunar month 3
- 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 3 of 咸平 5 = Julian 1002-04-16 to 1002-05-14, per Academia Sinica 兩千年中西曆轉換 year table(s) 咸平5.html (sha256 b54203d49651…); the whole month lies in AD 1002.
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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
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Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
丁酉，李繼遷陷靈州，知州裴濟死之。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
On the dingyou day, Li Jiqian captured Lingzhou; the prefect, Pei Ji, died in its defence.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Source: Song shi, juan 6, zh.wikisource transcription (revision 2285027). English renderings are AI working translations, not published translations.
Exact source version
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