Xianyu Zhongtong defeated at Lunan
The Zizhi tongjian records Xianyu Zhongtong suffering a major defeat at Lunan while campaigning against Nanzhao.
What this does and does not establish
Wikisource raw revision 1958791. The same paragraph subsequently locates the fighting at the Western Er River and says Yang Guozhong concealed the defeat while crediting military achievements; these are contextual accounts of the same campaign, not additional selected events.
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- 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
- Tianbao 10, fourth lunar month, renwu
- 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 zztj216.wikitext, heading line 114: '==玄宗至道大聖大明孝皇帝下之上天寶十年{{*|辛卯，西元七五一年}}==', and dated entry and surrounding campaign account at lines 140–146. calendar_headers and December rows in sinica-750-12-31.html and sinica-751-12-31.html establish '西元750年12月31日' = '天寶9年…11月28日' and '西元751年12月31日' = '天寶10年…12月9日'. Tianbao 10 month four falls wholly in Julian AD 751. Original quotation begins at line 140, character 6852.
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Zizhi tongjian
Sima Guang and collaborators
Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
夏，四月，壬午，劍南節度使鮮-{于}-仲通討南詔蠻，大敗-{於}-瀘南。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
In summer, in the fourth month, on renwu, Xianyu Zhongtong, military commissioner of Jiannan, campaigned against the Nanzhao Man and suffered a major defeat at Lunan.
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