Ye濊
1Ye — those of the same surname do not marry
濊南與辰韓，北與高句麗、沃沮接，東窮大海，今朝鮮之東皆其地也。戶二萬。昔箕子既適朝鮮，作八條之教以教之，無門戶之閉而民不爲盜。其後四十餘世，朝鮮侯（淮）僭號稱王。陳勝等起，天下叛秦，燕、齊、趙民避地朝鮮數萬口。燕人衛滿，魋結夷服，復來王之。漢武帝伐滅朝鮮，分其地爲四郡。自是之後，胡、漢稍別。無大君長，自漢已來，其官有侯邑君、三老，統主下戶。其耆老舊自謂與句麗同種。其人性願愨，少嗜欲，有廉恥，不請（句麗）匄。言語法俗大抵與句麗同，衣服有異。男女衣皆著曲領，男子擊銀花廣數寸以爲飾。自單單大山領以西屬樂浪，自領以東七縣，都尉主之，皆以濊爲民。後省都尉，封其渠帥爲侯，今不耐濊皆其種也。漢末更屬句麗。其俗重山川，山川各有部分，不得妄相涉入。同姓不婚。多忌諱，疾病死亡輒損棄舊宅，更作新居。有麻布，蠶桑作綿。曉候星宿，豫知年歲豐約。
Ye borders Jinhan on the south and Goguryeo and Okjeo on the north, and on the east it ends at the great sea. All that lies east of Joseon today is its land. Its households are twenty thousand.
Long ago Gija went to Joseon and made a teaching in eight articles and taught it, and though the doors were not barred the people did not steal. More than forty generations after that, the Marquis of Joseon presumed to call himself king.
When Chen Sheng and the others rose and the empire turned against Qin, the people of Yan and Qi and Zhao who took refuge in Joseon were tens of thousands. Wiman, a man of Yan, bound his hair in a topknot and put on barbarian dress, and he came in his turn and held kingship there. Emperor Wu of Han struck Joseon and destroyed it, and divided the land into four commanderies. After this the Hu (胡) and the Han (漢) were parted little by little.
There is no great king. From the time of Han their offices have been marquis (侯) and eupgun (邑君) and samno (三老), and these lead and hold the haho. Their old men have said of themselves from of old that they are of the same stock as Goguryeo.
The people are careful and true in nature. They have few pleasures and few wants, and they know shame and do not beg from others. Their speech and law and custom are much the same as those of Goguryeo, but their clothing differs. The clothes of both men and women have a curved collar (曲領), and a man hangs a silver flower several inches wide on it for ornament.
West of the great mountain ridge of Dandan belongs to Nangnang, and east of that ridge the seven counties were held by the Commandant, and all of them had the Ye for their people. Later the Commandant was done away with and their chieftains were enfeoffed as marquises, and the Bullae Ye of today are all of that stock. At the end of Han they belonged to Goguryeo again.
By their custom they hold the mountains and the rivers to be weighty. Every mountain and river has its own portion set apart, and they may not cross into one another's ground at will. Those of the same surname do not marry. They have many things they shun. When someone falls sick and dies, each time they pull down the old house and build a new one. They have hemp cloth, and they raise silkworms and make silk. They know how to watch the stars, and they know beforehand whether the year will be full or lean.
2Mucheon and chaekhwa
不以誅玉爲寶。常用十月節祭天，晝夜飲酒歌舞，名之爲舞天，又祭虎以爲神。其邑落相侵犯，輒相罰責生口牛馬，名之爲責禍。殺人者償死。少寇盜。作矛長三丈，或數人共持之，能步戰。樂浪檀弓出其地。其海出班魚皮，土地饒文豹，又出果下馬，漢桓時獻之。
They do not hold pearls and jade to be treasures. Always in the tenth month they sacrifice to Heaven, and by night and by day they drink wine and sing and dance, and it is called Mucheon (舞天). They also sacrifice to the tiger and hold it for a god.
When their settlements trespass on one another, each time they punish one another and exact people and oxen and horses, and this is called chaekhwa (責禍). Whoever kills a man pays for it with his death. There is little theft.
They make spears thirty feet long, and sometimes several men hold one together, and they are good at fighting on foot. The Nangnang birch bow (樂浪檀弓) comes from that land. From their sea comes the skin of the spotted fish (班魚), and in the land there are many patterned leopards, and the gwahama (果下馬) also comes from there, and it was offered as tribute in the time of Emperor Huan of Han.
Interlinear notes 1
臣松之按：果下馬高三尺，乘之可於果樹下行，故謂之果下。見《博物志》、《魏都賦》。
Your servant Songzhi notes: the gwahama is three feet high, so that a man can ride it and pass under a fruit tree, and therefore it is called gwaha (果下), which is to say "under the fruit." This is seen in the Bowu zhi and the Wei du fu.
3The King of Bullae Ye
正始六年，樂浪太守劉茂、帶方太守弓遵以領東濊屬句麗，興師伐之，不耐侯等舉邑降。其八年，詣闕朝貢，詔更拜不耐濊王。居處雜在民間，四時詣郡朝謁。二郡有軍征賦調，供給役使，遇之如民。
In the sixth year of Zhengshi, Liu Mao, Grand Administrator of Nangnang, and Gong Zun, Grand Administrator of Daebang, said that the Ye east of the ridge had gone over to Goguryeo, and they raised troops and struck them, and the Marquis of Bullae and the others gave up their towns and surrendered. In the eighth year they came to the palace gate and brought tribute, and by edict the Marquis of Bullae was made King of Bullae Ye (不耐濊王) once more.
Their dwellings are mixed in among the people, and in the four seasons they came to the commandery to present themselves. When the two commanderies had a levy of troops or a gathering of taxes, they supplied it and were put to work, and they were treated just as the people were.