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 · 99 Chinese characters · reading time 0.4 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."
The state of Didougan (地豆干國) lies more than a thousand li west of Shiwei. They have many oxen and sheep, and famous horses come from there. They make their clothing of hides. They have none of the five grains, and eat only meat and curdled milk. In the eighth month of the second year of Yanxing they sent envoys to pay tribute, and until the sixth year of Taihe the tribute envoys did not cease. In the fourteenth year they came again and again to raid the frontier, and Emperor Xiaowen ordered Yi, the prince of Yangping and general-in-chief who subdues the west, to strike them and drive them off. After that they came from time to time to court at the capital, and until the end of the Wuding years the tribute envoys did not cease. When Qi received the abdication, they came and paid tribute as well.