Wei capital moves to Pingcheng
The Zizhi tongjian records that Gui, king of Wei, moved his capital to Pingcheng.
What this does and does not establish
Pinned Wikisource revision 1472366. The seventh-month placement follows line 72 and precedes the eighth-month heading at line 90; line 78 supplies no day. Subsequent palace and temple construction is excluded from this occurrence.
- 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
- Long'an 2, seventh lunar month
- 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
zztj110.wikitext line 14 identifies Long'an 2 as wuxu, AD 398; lines 72–90 place this entry under lunar month seven. Physical rows 31–32 and table rows 35–65 of sinica-398-01-08.html and sinica-398-12-27.html were examined. Their dated endpoints are 398-01-08 = Long'an 1/Huangshi 2, dingyou, month 12 day 5, and 398-12-27 = Long'an 2/Huangshi 3, wuxu, intercalary month 11 day 3. Wuxu month seven lies safely between these endpoints, establishing civil AD 398 at year precision despite different court era counts. Original quotation begins at line 78, character 4775.
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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)
魏王珪遷都平城，AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
Gui, king of Wei, moved the capital to Pingcheng,
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Sima Guang et al., Zizhi tongjian, juan 110; Wikisource contributors, https://zh.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=1472366; CC BY-SA 4.0; project English translations shared alike.
Exact source version
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