Provincial administrations reorganized
The Ming History records the conversion of branch Central Secretariat offices into provincial administration commissions in the sixth month.
What this does and does not establish
明史/卷2, Wikisource revision 2594615. 改 records an institutional change rather than merely an instruction to consider one; this brief entry does not document implementation in individual provinces. The venue of the recorded act is not established; its region is left unassigned.
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- Region
- No region assigned This collection has not fixed where the act took place. It is not a statement that the place is unknown.
- 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
- 洪武九年六月甲午
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Dating notes from the research record
Read ming002.wikitext heading 213 and sixth-month entry 222 with neighboring passages. Read sinica-1375-12-31.html and sinica-1376-12-31.html headers and December cells: Julian 1375-12-31 is Hongwu 8, month 12, day 9; Julian 1376-12-31 is Hongwu 9, month 11, day 20. Hongwu 9 month 6 falls within Julian AD 1376. Original quotation begins at line 222, character 7604.
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Ming shi (History of Ming), basic annals
Zhang Tingyu et al., Qing court historians
Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
六月甲午，改行中書省為承宣布政使司。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
In the sixth month, on jiawu, the branch Central Secretariat offices were changed into provincial administration commissions.
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