Wang Dun raises troops at Wuchang
The Zizhi tongjian records Wang Dun raising troops at Wuchang in the first lunar month.
What this does and does not establish
Wikisource revision 1552069. The first-month date continues from row 15; this is the initial uprising, not Wang Dun's excluded return to Wuchang.
- 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
- Yongchang 1, renwu, lunar month 1, wuchen
- 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 zztj092.wikitext rows 13–25: row 13 identifies Yongchang 1 as renwu, and row 15 supplies month 1. Read both calendar files, including rows 31–32 and their month tables: sinica-322-01-08.html identifies AD 322 January 8 as Taixing 4, xinsi, month 12 day 4; sinica-322-12-27.html identifies AD 322 December 27 as Yongchang 1, renwu, intercalary month 11 day 3. The intervening renwu first month falls within civil AD 322; no civil day conversion is asserted. Original quotation begins at line 21, character 432.
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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)
戊辰，敦舉兵于武昌AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
On wuchen, Dun raised troops at Wuchang.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Sima Guang et al., Zizhi tongjian, juan 92; Wikisource contributors, https://zh.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=1552069; CC BY-SA 4.0; project English translations shared alike.
Exact source version
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Source checked 2026-11-12. 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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