Jin Shu Siyi Zhuan (Accounts of the Foreign Peoples of the Four Quarters in the Book of Jin) 晉書 四夷傳 · Fang Xuanling and others · 648 (Tang, 22nd year of the Zhenguan era) · 2 passages · 114 Chinese characters · reading time 0.5 min
Jin Shu Siyi Zhuan (Accounts of the Foreign Peoples of the Four Quarters in the Book of Jin) Complete in one volume The neighbours on all four sides as the Jin saw them. Here are the edict that raised up Buyeo again after Murong Hui had broken it; the customs of Mahan and Jinhan and their sacred ground, the sodo; the hosi arrows and stone arrowheads of the Suksin; and the tale of seven generations of Tuyuhun, which began when an elder and a younger brother parted after their horses fell to fighting.
The state of Qiuci lies eight thousand two hundred and eighty li west of Luoyang. By their custom they have walled towns, and their city wall is threefold, and within it are a thousand pagodas and temples. The people take field farming and the raising of stock for their work, and men and women alike cut their hair so that it hangs to the neck. The king's palace is grand and beautiful, and it shines like the dwelling of a god.
In the Taikang years of Emperor Wu their king sent his son to serve at the Chinese court. At the end of the reigns of Emperor Hui and Emperor Huai, when China was in disorder, they sent an envoy to present the products of their land to Zhang Chonghua. In the time of Fu Jian, Jian sent his general Lü Guang with a host of seventy thousand to attack them. Their king Bai Chun held the border against him and would not surrender, but Guang advanced his army, struck at them and subdued them.