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Doumolou豆莫婁

Bei Shi Siyi Zhuan (Accounts of the Foreign Peoples of the Four Quarters in the History of the Northern Dynasties) 北史 四夷傳 · Li Yanshou · 659 (Tang, 4th year of the Xianqing era) · 1 passages · 172 Chinese characters · reading time 0.7 min

Bei Shi Siyi Zhuan (Accounts of the Foreign Peoples of the Four Quarters in the History of the Northern Dynasties) Complete in one volume The East as the four dynasties of the North saw it. Here is the myth of Jumong, born from an egg, in its fullest form; the hundred years of King Jangsu's diplomacy, with its talk of a marriage and the death of a daughter; the memorial of King Gaero; and fourteen branches in all, reaching to the Wuji, the Khitan, the Shiwei, Liuqiu and Wa — closing on the ruin of Emperor Yang of Sui with the words, "He who works to widen his virtue flourishes; he who works to widen his land perishes."

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豆莫婁國，在勿吉北千里，舊北夫餘也。在室韋之東，東至於海，方二千餘里。其人土著，有居室倉庫。多山陵廣澤，於東夷之域，最爲平敞。地宜五穀，不生五果。其人長大，性強勇謹厚，不冠抄。其君長皆六畜名官，邑落有豪帥。飲食亦用俎豆。有麻布，衣制類高麗而帽大。其國大人，以金銀飾之。用刑嚴急，殺人者死，沒其家人爲奴婢。俗淫，尤惡妒者，殺之屍于國南山上，至腐，女家始得輸牛馬，乃與之。或言濊貊之地也。

The state of Doumolou (豆莫婁國) lies a thousand li north of Wuji, and is the old Northern Buyeo. It lies east of Shiwei and reaches the sea in the east, more than two thousand li across. Its people are settled on the land and have houses and storehouses. There are many mountains and hills and broad marshes, and of all the lands of the Eastern Yi this is the most level and open. The soil suits the five grains, but the five fruits do not grow there. The people are tall and large, firm and brave by nature, careful and generous, and they do not go raiding. Their lords all name their offices after the six kinds of livestock, and the settlements have chiefs of note. In eating and drinking they too use the stand and the dish. They have hemp cloth, and their clothes are cut much as in Goryeo, but the hats are large. The great men of that country adorn themselves with gold and silver. They use punishments strictly and swiftly. One who kills a man is put to death, and the people of his house are seized and made slaves. Their customs are loose, but a jealous woman they hate above all. They kill her and lay her body on a mountain south of the country until it rots, and only when her family brings oxen and horses will they give it up. Some say this was the land of the Ye and the Maek.

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