Northern chanyu surrounded at Mount Jinwei
The later Zizhi tongjian reports that forces dispatched under Geng Kui and Ren Shang surrounded and defeated the northern chanyu at Mount Jinwei.
What this does and does not establish
Pinned Wikisource revision 2400515. The second-month passage names the siege site without an exact day. Its report that the chanyu escaped is distinct from Yuan An's later claim at line 179 that the Wuhuan and Xianbei had recently killed a northern chanyu; the packet does not resolve that discrepancy.
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- East Asia
- Theme
- Politics and institutions
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- 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
- Yongyuan 3, second lunar month
- 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 zztj047.wikitext:163–179, including the full governing heading and the second-month event at 167. Lines 31–32 of sinica-91-02-15.html equate Julian AD 91 February 15 with Yongyuan 3, month 1, day 9; sinica-91-12-20.html equates December 20 with month 11, day 21. Month 2 lies wholly between the endpoints in AD 91. Original quotation begins at line 167, character 8846.
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Zizhi tongjian
Sima Guang and collaborators
Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
圍北單于於金微山，大破之AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
They surrounded the northern chanyu at Mount Jinwei and decisively defeated him.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Sima Guang et al., Zizhi tongjian, juan 47; Wikisource contributors, https://zh.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=2400515; CC BY-SA 4.0; project English translations shared alike.
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