Ren Fu defeated at Haoshuichuan
The Song shi basic annals record that in the second lunar month of Qingli 1 (AD 1041) Yuanhao (元昊) raided Weizhou (渭州), and Ren Fu (任福), deputy commander-in-chief of cavalry and infantry of Huanqing circuit (環慶路), was defeated at Haoshuichuan (好水川); Ren Fu and the officers and soldiers who died numbered more than six thousand.
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 entry is dated only "in this month" (是月) without a day, and the fighting may have been entered when news reached the court; the death toll is as the annals report it. The rendering of Ren Fu's title is a working translation. The annals number this whole year Qingli 1 (慶曆元年), although they record the change of era name (改元) only in the eleventh month.
- 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
- 慶曆 1 (慶曆元年 as numbered by the annals), lunar month 2
- 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 2 of 慶曆 1 = Julian 1041-03-05 to 1041-04-03, per Academia Sinica 兩千年中西曆轉換 year table(s) 康定2.html (sha256 faf687035785…); 慶曆1-m11.html (sha256 81a1f7be75c1…); the whole month lies in AD 1041.
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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
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Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
是月，元昊寇渭州，環慶路馬步軍副總管任福敗于好水川，福及將佐軍士死者六千余人。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
In this month, Yuanhao raided Weizhou; Ren Fu, Deputy Commander-in-chief of Cavalry and Infantry of Huanqing Circuit, was defeated at Haoshuichuan; Ren Fu and the generals, assistant officers and soldiers who died numbered more than six thousand.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Source: Song shi, juan 11, zh.wikisource transcription (revision 2285045). English renderings are AI working translations, not published translations.
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