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Hong-wu: Year 3, Month 6, Day 6

29 Jun 1370

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On this day, the Emperor personally wrote sacrificial invocations and sent officials to the mountains, the towns, the seas and the rivers to change and to fix the names of the spirits (更定神號) and to announce the sacrifices....... Xia Xiang-feng, the chief of the Directorate of the Palace Library, and others, were sent to promulgate advice of the rectification of the spirits' names to Annam, Champa and Korea.

Tai-zu: juan 53.2a-b

Zhong-yang Yan-jiu yuan Ming Shi-lu, volume 3, page 1035/36

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Geoff Wade, translator, Southeast Asia in the Ming Shi-lu: an open access resource, Singapore: Asia Research Institute and the Singapore E-Press, National University of Singapore, http://epress.nus.edu.sg/msl/reign/hong-wu/year-3-month-6-day-6, accessed January 22, 2019