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AD 486

1 record placed in AD 486; regions: East Asia.

Placed in AD 486 by a source

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AD 486Placed in a yearEast AsiaPolitics and institutions

Three Elders system and household registers

The Wei shu basic annals record that on the jiaxu day of the second lunar month of Taihe 10 (AD 486) the court for the first time established the Three Elders (三長) of the dang (黨), li (里) and lin (隣) units and fixed the household registers of the people.

Limits: 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 annals state the measure in one line and do not give the size of the units. The dated headers in the retained file and the retained file place the starts of months 2 and 3 on 21 March and 20 April, respectively. Month 2 lies wholly in Julian 486.

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Source: Wei shu (Book of Wei), basic annalsRead the source