Thirty thousand households of Liangzhou moved to the capital
The Wei shu basic annals record that on the xinyou day of the tenth lunar month of Taiyan 5 (AD 439) the imperial carriage returned east and more than thirty thousand households of the people of Liangzhou (涼州) were moved to the capital.
What this does and does not establish
An official history compiled 551-554 by Wei Shou under the Northern Qi from Northern Wei records; the English is an AI working translation. The household figure is as reported.
- Read through an AI working translation.
- Region
- East Asia
- Theme
- Social life
- 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
- 太延 5 (太延五年 as numbered by the annals), lunar month 10
- How we use it
- Year assigned from the lunar month under which the Wei shu 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 10 of 太延 5 = Julian 439-11-22 to 439-12-21, per Academia Sinica 兩千年中西曆轉換 year table(s) 太延5.html (sha256 a3a970791a18…); the whole month lies in AD 439.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Wei shu (Book of Wei), basic annals
Wei Shou (魏收), Northern Qi court historian
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Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
冬十月辛酉，車駕東還，徙涼州民三萬餘家于京師。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
Winter, tenth month, xinyou day: the imperial carriage returned east, and more than thirty thousand households of the people of Liangzhou were moved to the capital.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Source: Wei shu, juan 4上, zh.wikisource transcription (revision 2318474). English renderings are AI working translations, not published translations.
Exact source version
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Source checked 2026-11-05. An independent AI evidence review supports this bounded, attributed wording. That review does not guarantee historical truth. How records are checked
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