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Qiuci龜茲

Liang Shu Zhuyi Zhuan (Accounts of the Various Foreign Peoples in the Book of Liang) 梁書 諸夷傳 · Yao Silian · 636 (Tang, 10th year of the Zhenguan era) · 1 passages · 192 Chinese characters · reading time 0.8 min

Liang Shu Zhuyi Zhuan (Accounts of the Various Foreign Peoples in the Book of Liang) Complete in one volume Thirty-six kingdoms as the Liang of the Southern dynasties saw them. The memorial in which King Muryeong of Baekje announced that his land had become a strong kingdom once more; the record in which Silla first appears under its own name; the tale of the Buddha's hair and the stupa of King Ashoka; and the legends from the far end of the sea, of Fusang and the Kingdom of Women — from the Southern Sea to the Western Regions, this is the broadest of all the accounts of the various foreign peoples.

1Qiuci

龜茲者，西域之舊國也。後漢光武時，其王名弘，爲莎車王賢所殺，滅其族。賢使其子則羅爲龜茲王，國人又殺則羅。匈奴立龜茲貴人身毒爲王，由是屬匈奴。然龜茲在漢世常爲大國，所都曰延城。魏文帝初卽位，遣使貢獻。晉太康中，遣子入侍。太元七年，秦主苻堅遣將呂光伐西域。至龜茲，龜茲王帛純載寶出奔，光入其城。城有三重，外城與長安城等，室屋壯麗，飾以琅玕金玉。光立帛純弟震爲王而歸，自此與中國絕不通。普通二年，王尼瑞摩珠那勝遣使奉表貢獻。

Qiuci (龜茲) is an old kingdom of the Western Regions. In the time of Emperor Guangwu of the Later Han its king was named Hong (弘), and he was killed by Xian, king of Suoche, who wiped out his kin. Xian made his own son Zeluo king of Qiuci, and the people of the kingdom killed Zeluo as well. The Xiongnu then set up Shendu, a noble of Qiuci, as king, and from this time it belonged to the Xiongnu. Yet through the age of Han, Qiuci was always a great kingdom, and the city it had its capital in is called Yancheng. When Emperor Wen of Wei had just ascended the throne, it sent an envoy with tribute. In the Taikang years of Jin it sent a son to serve at court. In the seventh year of Taiyuan, Fu Jian, the ruler of Qin, sent his general Lü Guang to strike the Western Regions. When he reached Qiuci, Bochun, the king of Qiuci, loaded up his treasures and fled, and Guang entered his city. The city had three rings of walls, and the outer wall was the match of the wall of Chang'an. The houses and halls were grand and beautiful, adorned with langgan stones and with gold and jade. Guang set up Zhen, the younger brother of Bochun, as king and went back, and from this time it was wholly cut off from China. In the second year of Putong its king Niruimozhunasheng sent an envoy to bear a memorial and offer tribute.

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