Liu Yao threatens Chang'an
The Zizhi tongjian records that Han's Grand Marshal Liu Yao pressed upon Chang'an in the eighth lunar month.
What this does and does not establish
Wikisource revision 7904751. This explicitly dated occurrence is distinct from the preceding seventh-month operations and the subsequent capture and surrender of Chang'an.
- 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
- Jianxing 4, bingzi year, eighth lunar month
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
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
zztj089.wikitext row 127 identifies Jianxing 4 as bingzi, AD 316; rows 159–175 establish the seventh-, eighth-, and ninth-month sequence. Both calendar files were examined, including physical rows 31–32 and their month tables: sinica-316-01-08.html gives AD 316-01-08 as Jianxing 3, yihai, month 11 day 27; sinica-316-12-27.html gives AD 316-12-27 as Jianxing 4, bingzi, month 11 day 27. Jianxing 4 month 8 lies within civil AD 316. Jin's annal era dates the Han occurrence without assuming identical court-era names. Original quotation begins at line 169, character 9870.
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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)
八月，漢大司馬曜逼長安。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
In the eighth month, Yao, Han's Grand Marshal, pressed upon Chang'an.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Sima Guang et al., Zizhi tongjian, juan 89; Wikisource contributors, https://zh.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=7904751; CC BY-SA 4.0; project English translations shared alike.
Exact source version
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