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Hong-zhi: Year 6, Month 11, Day 27
4 Jan 1494
4 Jan 1494
As the attendant minister Du Jiong (Alt: Du Gang), from the country of Annam, had died on the journey when coming to offer felicitations to the Court, it was ordered that a bolt of variegated silk and a bolt of silk gauze be conferred upon his family to comfort them.
Xiao-zong: juan 82.5a
Zhong-yang Yan-jiu yuan Ming Shi-lu, volume 54, page 1555
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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-zhi/year-6-month-11-day-27, accessed January 22, 2019