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Nan Qi Shu Dongnan Yi Zhuan (Accounts of the Eastern and Southern Yi in the Book of Southern Qi) 南齊書東南夷傳 · Xiao Zixian · c. 537 (Liang, Southern dynasties) · 2 passages · 137 Chinese characters · reading time 0.5 min

Nan Qi Shu Dongnan Yi Zhuan (Accounts of the Eastern and Southern Yi in the Book of Southern Qi) Complete in one volume The Eastern Yi and the Southern Yi as the Southern Qi saw them. Here are the death of Go Ryeon, King Jangsu of Goguryeo; the first account given to Haji, king of Gara, in his own right; and the memorial saying that Modae, King Dongseong of Baekje, broke several hundred thousand Northern Wei horsemen. Even the story of the leaf lost from the middle of the account of Goryeo is shown here just as it stands.

1The historian says

史臣曰：書稱「蠻夷猾夏」，蓋總而為言矣。至於南夷雜種，分嶼建國，四方珍怪，莫此為先，藏山隱海，瓌寶溢目。商舶遠屆，委輸南州，故交、廣富實，牣積王府。充斥之事差微，聲教之道可被。若夫用德以懷遠，其在此乎？

The historian says: the Book of Documents speaks of "the Man and the Yi throwing Xia into confusion," which is said in the mass and as a whole. As for the many tribes of the Southern Yi, they divide the islands and set up kingdoms; of the rare and strange things of the four quarters none comes before these, and the fair treasures hidden in their hills and buried in their seas overflow the eye. Merchant ships arrive from afar and pour their goods into Nanzhou (南州), so Jiaozhou and Guangzhou are rich and full, and it is heaped high in the royal treasury (王府). Their raiding is rather slight, and the way of teaching by sound (聲敎) may be laid upon them. Now surely it is here that cherishing the distant by virtue lies?

2The eulogy

贊曰：司、雍分壃，荊及衡陽。參錯州部，地有蠻方。東夷海外，碣石、扶桑。南域憬遠，極泛溟滄。非要乃貢，竝亦來王。

The eulogy says: Sizhou and Yongzhou divide the border, and this is the land of Jingzhou and Hengyang. Where the provinces and their districts lie tangled together, there are the regions of the Man. The Eastern Yi are beyond the sea, at Jieshi and Fusang. The southern reaches are far and dim, floating out to the ends of the wide ocean. Though they are not of the tributary zone they bring tribute, and they too come to pay court to the king.

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