Liu Yuan moves his capital to Zuoguocheng
The Zizhi tongjian reports that Liu Yuan moved his capital to Zuoguocheng in 304.
What this does and does not establish
Pinned Wikisource revision 2454083. The tenth-month marker precedes this entry in row 127. Row 115 previously places his capital at Lishi; its earlier arrival at Zuoguocheng is distinct from this capital transfer. Row 129 subsequently records his Han kingship and Yuanxi era.
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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
- Jiazi year, lunar tenth month; before Liu Yuan's recorded adoption of Yuanxi
- 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
zztj085.wikitext row 77 identifies jiazi as AD 304; row 127 introduces month ten, governing row 129 before the next month marker at row 137. Examined sinica-304-01-08.html rows 31–32 and 35–65: January 8 belongs to the preceding guihai lunar year. Examined sinica-304-12-27.html rows 31–32 and 35–65: December 1 is month 10 day 18, December 13 is month 10 day 30, and December 14 begins month 11. Thus this tenth-month event belongs to civil AD 304. The calendar uses Jin court eras; Liu Yuan's separate Yuanxi designation does not change the civil-year assignment. Original quotation begins at line 129, character 9203.
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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)
劉淵遷都左國城，AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
Liu Yuan moved his capital to Zuoguocheng,
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Sima Guang et al., Zizhi tongjian, juan 85; Wikisource contributors, https://zh.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=2454083; CC BY-SA 4.0; project English translations shared alike.
Exact source version
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