Trưng Trắc establishes her capital at Mê Linh
The later Zizhi tongjian reports that Trưng Trắc established her capital at Mê Linh after proclaiming herself ruler.
What this does and does not establish
Pinned Wikisource revision 1502566; the subject and second-month date come from the beginning of the same paragraph. The chronicle gives no day.
- Read through an AI working translation.
- Region
- Southeast 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 16, second 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 zztj043.wikitext heading 124 and event line 126, with neighboring lines 120–140. Physical lines 31–32 of sinica-40-02-15.html equate Julian AD 40-02-15 with Jianwu 16, month 1, day 14; those of sinica-40-12-20.html equate Julian AD 40-12-20 with month 10, day 28. Month 2 lies wholly between these endpoints, establishing AD 40. Original quotation begins at line 126, character 6492.
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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)
自立為王，都麊泠。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
She proclaimed herself king and established her capital at Mê Linh.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Sima Guang et al., Zizhi tongjian, juan 43; Wikisource contributors, https://zh.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=1502566; CC BY-SA 4.0; project English translations shared alike.
Exact source version
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