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 · 72 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 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 historian says: The kingdoms of the Southern Sea, of the Eastern Yi and of the Northwestern Rong lie where the land runs out at its farthest edge, and each of them has its own borders. Their strange mountains and marvelous seas, their uncanny kinds and singular races, were never heard of in the old days and are not set down in the records of the past. From this it is known that beyond the Nine Provinces and outside the Eight Wastes, though one may set out to tell apart their products and their soils, the end of them cannot be reached. Gaozu drew them to him by his virtue, and so their tribute came year after year. How fine that was.
Interlinear notes 1
全文以中華書局、一九七三年五月版《梁書》爲本校。
The whole text has been collated against the Liang shu (梁書) published by the Zhonghua Book Company in the fifth month of 1973.