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 · 100 Chinese characters · reading time 0.4 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.
The kingdom of Dengzhi (鄧至) dwells within the bounds of Xiliang province, and its people are a separate branch of the Qiang. Age after age its rulers were styled Bearer of the Tally, General Who Pacifies the North and Inspector of Xiliang province. In the time of Emperor Wen of Song its king Xiang Qutan sent an envoy to offer horses. In the first year of Tianjian, by edict, Xiang Shupeng, king of Dengzhi, was made Governor of All Military Affairs of Xiliang province and was given the title of General Who Quiets the North. In the fifth year Shupeng sent an envoy to offer four hundred catties of huangqi root and four horses. By their custom they call a hat tuhe (突何), and their clothing is the same as that of Dangchang.