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The Country of Heluximinjian紇露悉泯健國

Da Tang Xiyu Ji (Great Tang Records on the Western Regions) 大唐西域記 · Xuanzang · compiled by Bianji · 646 (Tang, 20th year of the Zhenguan era) · 2 passages · 29 Chinese characters · reading time 0.1 min

Da Tang Xiyu Ji (Great Tang Records on the Western Regions) Book 1 The record Xuanzang laid before Emperor Taizong of the Tang after seventeen years of walking through the Western Regions and India, a hundred and thirty-eight countries in all. It is the stuff from which Journey to the West was made, but what stands here is not monsters — it is the compass and the climate and the speech and the faith of one country after another. The road runs two hundred years after Faxian and eighty years before Hyecho.

紇露悉泯健國。周千餘里。國大都城周十四五里。

The country of Heluximinjian is more than a thousand li around. The great capital city of the country is fourteen or fifteen li around.

西北至忽懍國。

Going northwest, one comes to the country of Hulin.