Song Shu Yiman Zhuan (Accounts of the Yi and Man Peoples in the Book of Song) 宋書 夷蠻傳 · Shen Yue · 488 (Southern Qi, 6th year of the Yongming era) · 1 passages · 94 Chinese characters · reading time 0.4 min
Song Shu Yiman Zhuan (Accounts of the Yi and Man Peoples in the Book of Song) Complete in one volume The neighbours across the sea as the Song of the Southern dynasties saw them. Here are the tribute of Go Ryeon, King Jangsu of Goguryeo, and the affair of Feng Hong; the notice of Baekje taking Liaoxi; the memorials of the five kings of Wa — Chan, Jin, Je, Heung and Mu; and the memorials that the many kingdoms of the Southern Sea sent up out of their faith in the Buddha, down to Huilin's Treatise on Equal Goodness — the record of the sea roads of the fifth century.
In the twenty-sixth year of Yuanjia, Shelibulingqiebamo, king of the country, sent an envoy with local products, and Taizu invested him as king of the kingdom of Poda: "You look up to our teaching and hold sincerity in your heart, and you hasten to long for the voice of instruction (聲敎). The imperial wind reaches far, and the wild marches (荒服) come to offer their loyalty. Therefore this clear investiture is added, to make plain your righteous obedience. Do you reverently follow the statutes and end your days in fair blessing. Can you fail to be careful?" In the twenty-sixth year and in the twenty-eighth year he again sent envoys with local products.