New official system completed; Wang Gui and Cai Que appointed
The Song shi basic annals record that on a guiyou day in the fourth lunar month of Yuanfeng 5 (AD 1082) the official system (官制) was completed, and Wang Gui (王珪) was appointed Left Vice Director of the Department of State Affairs concurrently Vice Director of the Chancellery (尚書左僕射兼門下侍郎), and Cai Que (蔡確) Right Vice Director of the Department of State Affairs concurrently Vice Director of the Secretariat (尚書右僕射兼中書侍郎).
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 English renderings of the titles are conventional working translations and may differ from other usages; the entry does not describe the content of the official system.
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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
- 元豐 5 (元豐五年 as numbered by the annals), lunar month 4
- 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 4 of 元豐 5 = Julian 1082-05-01 to 1082-05-29, per Academia Sinica 兩千年中西曆轉換 year table(s) 元豐5.html (sha256 76051768abb9…); the whole month lies in AD 1082.
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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
The credit or link shown here was corrected after an audit of the retained source.
Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
癸酉，官制成。以王珪爲尚書左僕射兼門下侍郎，蔡確爲尚書右僕射兼中書侍郎。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
On the guiyou day, the official system was completed. Wang Gui was made Left Vice Director of the Department of State Affairs concurrently Vice Director of the Chancellery, and Cai Que was made Right Vice Director of the Department of State Affairs concurrently Vice Director of the Secretariat.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Source: Song shi, juan 16, zh.wikisource transcription (revision 2285107). English renderings are AI working translations, not published translations.
Exact source version
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