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The Kumo Xi庫莫奚

Zhou Shu Yiyu Zhuan (Accounts of the Foreign Regions in the Book of Zhou) 周書 異域傳 · Linghu Defen and others · 636 (Tang, 10th year of the Zhenguan era) · 1 passages · 130 Chinese characters · reading time 0.5 min

Zhou Shu Yiyu Zhuan (Accounts of the Foreign Regions in the Book of Zhou) Complete in one volume The neighbours as the Northern Zhou saw them. It gives in detail the thirteen offices of Goryeo and the golso cap, and the eoraha and the geongilji of Baekje with their sixteen ranks of office; then follow the accounts of many peoples within and beyond the Middle Land — the Man, the Lao, the Dangchang Qiang, the Jihu and the rest. Sixty-six collation notes comparing the editions are carried over as interlinear notes.

1The Kumo Xi

庫莫奚，鮮卑之別種也。其先為慕容晃所破，竄於松漠之間。後種類漸多，分為五部：一曰辱紇主，二曰莫賀弗，三曰契箇，四曰木昆，五曰室得。每部置俟〔斤〕一人。有阿會氏者，最為豪帥，五部皆受其節度。役屬於突厥，而數與契丹相攻。虜獲財畜，因而行賞。死者則以葦薄裹尸，懸之樹上。大統五年，遣使獻其方物。

The Kumo Xi are a separate branch of the Xianbei. Their forebears were broken by Murong Huang and hid away in the region of Songmo. Later their kinds grew many and they divided into five tribes. The first is Ruhezhu, the second Mohefu, the third Qige, the fourth Mukun, the fifth Shide. Each tribe sets up one siqin (俟斤). There was one of the Ahui clan (阿會氏), the boldest of their chiefs, and all five tribes take their orders from him. They are held in service by the Tujue, and they have often attacked the Khitan. Goods and livestock taken in raids are what they give out as rewards. The dead they wrap in reed matting and hang upon a tree. In the fifth year of Datong they sent an envoy and presented the products of their land.

Interlinear notes 2

（斥）

The character in the base text is 斥.

每部置俟（斥）〔斤〕一人張森楷云：「各傳並作『俟斤』，疑『斥』字誤。」按通典卷二００厙莫奚條、冊府卷九五六一一二五四頁、御覽卷八０一三五五六頁正作「俟斤」，今據改。

On "each tribe sets up one siqin," where the text has 斥 for 斤: Zhang Senkai said, "The other accounts all write 俟斤, so the character 斥 appears to be an error." The Tongdian, in the section on Kumo Xi, the Cefu yuangui, and the Yulan all write 俟斤, and the text has been corrected to follow them.

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