Chapter Fifty-Six: The March Journey of the Great Wilderness
readx;? On September 12 (Ding Wei Day), King Mu and Kao Niao, the leader of the Xuanniao Division, had a feast on Wenshan (presumably Kuantan Mountain, belonging to the Altyn Mountains, which is faulted with the Qilian Mountains and is located in Yumen City, Jiuquan, Gansu). Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
On the 14th day of the ninth month, King Mu drank alcohol on the Shule River. At that time, there were dense forests, swamps, plains, and low mountains, and there were large birds everywhere, and the feathers that had fallen off were everywhere.
King Mu ordered the men of the six divisions (the accompanying army) to collect the feathers of the birds. The people of the six divisions all went to the wilderness area of the Shule River Valley, and the people of the six divisions hunted everywhere in the wilderness area, and the harvest was innumerable, and the birds and beasts were extinct. (It is a catastrophe for the animals that have lived peacefully here for an unknown number of years.)
The people of the six divisions hunted for nine consecutive days, and King Mu led the guards to station in the hill of Yuling (Sanwei Mountain, located in Dunhuang City, Jiuquan, Gansu), collected the leather goods and products offered by the people of the six divisions, loaded hundreds of cars, and the cars were fully loaded.
King Mu likes hunting the most, and he stayed here for three months, longer than the time he spent with the Queen Mother of the West, of course, this may be because King Mu wants to spend the winter here and does not want to travel in winter. Every day, King Mu ordered the music to be played to reward the important ministers of the court and some of the princes who accompanied him, and the Seven Elite Scholars (the accompanying guards) were placed on the hill of Yuling to rest.
year, the fourth day of the first month of the eighteenth year of King Mu of Zhou (Jihai Day), King Mu couldn't wait, and returned to the east by car, and the six divisions (accompanying army) were numerous, and the harvest was also many, and they couldn't keep up with King Mu.
On the fifth day of the first lunar month (Gengzi Day), King Mu arrived at Xingzhi Mountain, which belonged to a mountain in northern Gansu, where King Mu rested and waited for the people of the Six Divisions to come and meet.
On February 15 (Gengchen Day), King Mu set off to return east after joining the Sixth Division.
On the 18th day of February (癸未日), King Mu arrived at Rongzhi Mountain, which was the fief of the Zhi clan, and its leader Zhi went out of the national capital, came to Rongzhi Mountain to meet King Mu, and offered two white horses [骖, 騑马也], wild horses and bison forty, guard dogs (watchdogs?) seventy, four hundred eating horses, and three thousand cattle and sheep. King Mu cruising along the river in the territory of the Zhi clan. Zhi also offered a hundred fine wine (Hu) to King Mu, and King Mu rewarded Zhi's golden dog, colored jade, golden baby eighteen, shell belt forty, three hundred Dan wraps, cinnamon ginger hundred fences, Zhi Nai worshipped and received.
On the 20th day of the second month, King Mu turned southward and turned eastward.
On the twenty-fourth day of the second month (Jichou Day), King Mu arrived at Xianshui, traveled eastward along Xianshui, and after drinking water, turned to the southeast.
On the fourth day of the third month (Jihai day), King Mu arrived at the mountain of Gua, the mountain is surrounded by three turns, like a city fortress, here is the place where the Hu clan [阏, sound containment] guards. King Mu turned south, and all along the way was desert (Badain Jaran Desert), with only a shallow stream flowing southward. Soon the stream was cut off, leaving only the desert.
On the sixth day of the third month (Xinchou Day), King Mu felt hungry and thirsty in the desert, and ordered people to look for water everywhere, but he could not find it. Gao Benrong, the warrior who had previously captured the tiger and was also King Mu's guard, pierced the neck of one of the white horses that Zhi had offered to King Mu, and took its pure blood for King Mu to drink. King Mu solved the problem of thirst, was very happy, and gave Gao Benrong Peiyu a jade, and Benrong bowed to the head again. King Mu continued to travel south with great spirits.
On the ninth day of the third month (Jiachen day), King Mu arrived at the foot of Jishan, where the Ji clan lived. The leader of the Ji clan ordered Huai to offer wine to King Mu. King Mu gave the golden baby of the Ji clan, and the shell was wrapped in seventy wraps. Destiny is worship.
On the 10th day of the third month (Yisi day), Zhu Qi (pronounced Gandhara, the Ox of the Ox), one of the three princes who accompanied him, offered wine to King Mu, and King Mu also gave him a golden baby and 70 wraps of shell with Dan. All the delicacies are worshipped and received.
On the fifteenth day of April (Gengchen Day), King Mu arrived at Taoshui, where the Turbidity clan lived.
On April 16 (Xin Si Day), King Mu continued his eastward journey.
On the 18th day of April, King Mu arrived at Sugu, where the Gu Biao clan lived. King Mu traveled south, and then turned eastward.
On the twenty-first day of the fourth month (Bingxu Day), King Mu arrived at Changshan, the western border of Chongli's territory.
On the twenty-second day of the fourth month (Dinghai Day), King Mu ascended Changshan Mountain and then continued eastward.
On the twenty-fifth day of April (Gengyin Day), King Mu arrived at the Heishui River (also known as weak water, located in Ejina Banner, Inner Mongolia) where the Chongli clan lived. There are wild wheat and violet, and the special products are wood grass [wood grass, cereals, too. Long five fathoms, big five circumferences. See "The Classic of Mountains and Seas". These are all plants that Chong Li eats. There is a jade quarrying mountain nearby, guarded by the Chongli clan, and the jade varieties produced are called: Zhisi, Xuan Gui [Xuanhui two tones], Yan Yao, Langcai, Yuqi, Wei, and the best jade of the Mu Wang era are all from this mountain. The jade was exhausted during the Zhou period, so it is not possible to infer its detailed geographical location from the fact that it was produced.
On the twenty-eighth day of April (Mengxia Hui Day), King Mu ordered Chong Li to provide food and drink for his accompanying vassals.
On the second day of the fifth day of the first month (Ding You Day), King Mu climbed the quarrying mountain, took away the quarryed jade, and ordered the people of the Li clan to make exquisite jade on the black water. In order to wait for the completion of the production of these jade objects, King Mu ordered him to rest in the quarrying mountain for a month.
On the twenty-eighth day of May (Guihai Day), King Mu saw that the jade was made, and was very satisfied, and as a reward, he gave Chongli the golden baby eighteen, a silver black, fifty shell belts, seven hundred wraps, (ghost) arrows, one hundred cinnamon ginger (篋), and a silk carving official. The leader of the Chongli clan is worshipped.
On May 30 (Yichou Day), King Mu continued to travel eastward, and the leader of the Chongli clan saw off King Mu until he was sent to the mountain of Changsha (a mountain in Inner Mongolia), and the king of Mu gave a jade pendant of the Chongli clan.
On the first day of the sixth month (Bingyin Day), King Mu continued his eastward journey and turned southward.
On the fourth day of the first month of June (Jisi day), King Mu arrived at Wenshan (a mountain in Inner Mongolia), the people of Ximian settled here, they called Wenshan Xingshan, and the leader of Ximian presented gifts to Mu Wangjin: 300 horses, 2,000 cattle and sheep, 1,000 carts of rice, and King Mu ordered Biju to receive gifts. King Mu visited Wenshan for three days, because he found jade in the mountain, so he ordered someone to mine it and named it Wenshan.
On the seventh day of the sixth month (Renshen Day), King Mu feasted and drank under Wenshan, and the leader of the Wenshan people presented ten good horses to King Mu [four horses for horses], with 300 oxen, 90 dogs, and 200 yaks (this ox can walk in the quicksand). King Mu ordered the horses and bulls to be Hao, still fashionable. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" cloud "fashionable horses are like horses, and the four sections of the feet are hairy"], and the dog [尨, 尨谨, is called a fierce dog. Or said to be a dog name], a sheep, to sacrifice to Wenshan. He also gave the infant eighteen of the returned gold, thirty shell belts, three hundred wraps, and one hundred cinnamon and ginger (篋), and the return of the relics was worshiped and received.