Southern Xiongnu court established near Wuyuan frontier
The Zizhi tongjian reports under the first month of Jianwu 26 that imperial envoys established the Southern Xiongnu court eighty li from Wuyuan’s western frontier barrier.
What this does and does not establish
Wikisource revision 2356198. The location is relative to Wuyuan’s western frontier barrier; no direction is stated. The following permission to reside in Yunzhong and the winter relocation to Meiji in Xihe are distinct developments, not locations of this establishment. The preceding 初 introduces imperial tomb construction, not a retrospective date for this clause.
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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
- Jianwu 26, first 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 zztj044.wikitext physical rows 61–69: row 61 heads Jianwu 26; row 63 supplies the governing first month; row 65 contains the event before summer at row 67. Read physical rows 31–32 in both calendar files: sinica-50-01-06.html equates Julian AD 50 January 6 with Jianwu 25, month 11, day 24; sinica-50-11-20.html equates Julian AD 50 November 20 with Jianwu 26, month 10, day 17. These independently dated bounds enclose the complete first lunar month of Jianwu 26 within civil AD 50; no exact event day is supplied. Original quotation begins at line 65, character 3403.
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Zizhi tongjian
Sima Guang and collaborators
Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
詔遣中郎將段郴、副校尉王郁使南匈奴，立其庭，去五原西部塞八十里。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
An imperial edict dispatched Palace Gentleman General Duan Chen and Deputy Commandant Wang Yu as envoys to the Southern Xiongnu to establish their court, eighty li from Wuyuan’s western frontier barrier.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Sima Guang et al., Zizhi tongjian, juan 44; Wikisource contributors, https://zh.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=2356198; CC BY-SA 4.0; project English translations shared alike.
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