News of Emperor Min's death reaches Jiankang
The Zizhi tongjian records that news of Emperor Min's death reached Jiankang in the third lunar month.
What this does and does not establish
Wikisource revision 803144. This dates receipt of the news, not Emperor Min's death. The surrounding passages distinguish the report from Sima Rui's subsequent imperial accession.
- 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
- Taixing 1 annual heading, wuyin, third lunar month, guichou
- 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 zztj090.wikitext heading at row 75 and rows 77–85. sinica-318-01-08.html, rows 31–32, equates AD 318 January 8 with Jianwu 1, dingchou, month 11 day 20; sinica-318-12-27.html, rows 31–32, equates AD 318 December 27 with Taixing 1, wuyin, month 11 day 19. Wuyin month 3 falls between these endpoints in AD 318. Row 83 records the subsequent era change, so Taixing is used here as the annual heading rather than an already-effective event-date era. Original quotation begins at line 79, character 4801.
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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)
三月，癸丑，愍帝凶問至建康，AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
In the third month, on guichou, news of Emperor Min's death reached Jiankang.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Sima Guang et al., Zizhi tongjian, juan 90; Wikisource contributors, https://zh.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=803144; CC BY-SA 4.0; project English translations shared alike.
Exact source version
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