Shunzhi emperor dies at Yangxin Hall
The Qing shi gao states that the Shunzhi emperor died at Yangxin Hall on the dingsi day of the first lunar month of his eighteenth regnal year.
What this does and does not establish
清史稿/卷5, 世祖本紀二; pinned Wikisource revision 2616665, a retrospective dynastic history. The complete line 278 distinguishes illness on renzi and critical illness on bingchen from death on dingsi; adjacent line 280 separately records third-month posthumous honors and burial. No contradictory death location appears in the examined passages. The Sinica tables list concurrent Ming Yongli and Qing Shunzhi regimes; their Ming dates are not Qing regnal dates.
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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
- Shunzhi 18, first lunar month, dingsi day
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
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
Read qing005.wikitext lines 1–15 and 252–282, including complete annual line 278 and adjacent entries. Read calendar_headers for all three Sinica files and independently inspected their lines 31–32 with neighboring rows: sinica-1660-12-31.html equates 1660-12-31 with Shunzhi 17, month 11, day 30; sinica-1661-02-05.html equates 1661-02-05 with Shunzhi 18, month 1, day 7; sinica-1661-12-31.html equates 1661-12-31 with Shunzhi 18, month 11, day 11. These bounds and the first-month control point, together with the annal's Shunzhi 18 first-month dingsi entry, place the death in civil AD 1661. No exact Western death date is claimed. Original quotation begins at line 278, character 21910.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Qing shi gao (Draft History of Qing), imperial annals
Zhao Erxun and collaborators
Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
丁巳，崩於養心殿，年二十四。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
On the dingsi day, the emperor died at Yangxin Hall, aged twenty-four.
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