Prince of Luling reaches the capital
The Zizhi tongjian records the Prince of Luling arriving at Shendu.
What this does and does not establish
Wikisource revision 1554189, line 121. The same paragraph dates his summons to jisi in the third month. Earlier paragraphs give different participants credit for encouraging his recall; this record makes no claim about whose intervention was decisive.
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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
- Shengli 1, third month, wuzi
- 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 zztj206.wikitext, lines 101–127, including the calendar decree, first-month winter-solstice entry, spring second month, third-month summons and arrival, and summer fourth month. sinica-697-12-31.html, lines 31–65, labels Julian 697-12-31 唐武后神功2年, wu-xu, month 1 day 12; sinica-698-12-31.html, lines 31–65, labels Julian 698-12-31 唐武后聖曆2年, ji-hai, month 1 day 24. The intervening third month falls in Julian 698. Actual rule was Wu Zhou. The first converter anchor retains Shengong, whereas the chronicle changes to Shengli on the preceding first-month jiazi winter solstice; this era-label discrepancy does not change the spring event’s Julian year. Line 107 explicitly shifts the first month by intercalation, so no January 1 new-year assumption is used.
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Zizhi tongjian
Sima Guang and collaborators
Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
戊子，廬陵王至神都。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
On wuzi, the Prince of Luling arrived at Shendu.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Zizhi tongjian, juan 206; Wikisource contributors https://zh.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=1554189, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); project translation, adapted and share alike where applicable.
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