Sui moves to its new capital
Zizhi tongjian records that Sui moved to its new capital.
What this does and does not establish
Juan 175, pinned Wikisource revision 1153431. The preceding year's entry names the new capital 大興城; this clause records the move without describing every institution's relocation.
- 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
- 癸卯年，三月丙辰
- 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 zztj175.wikitext lines 175–216: 至德元年/癸卯 governs the chronological sequence; 二月 precedes and 四月 follows the move. Read converter lines 30–34: Julian 582-12-31 is Sui 開皇2/壬寅, month 12 day 1; Julian 583-12-31 is Sui 開皇3/癸卯, month 12 day 12. The Sui-calendar third month of 癸卯 falls in Julian AD 583; Chen's different intercalary-month date was kept separate.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Zizhi tongjian
Sima Guang and collaborators
Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
三月，丙辰，隋遷於新都。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
Third month, bingchen: Sui moved to the new capital.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Zizhi tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government), juan 175, Wikisource raw wikitext revision 1153431 (2017-07-21T05:37:28Z); project English working translation. Transcription contributors, https://zh.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=1153431, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); project English translation adapted from original, share alike where applicable.
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