Chapter 53: King Mu Ascends the Mountain of Jade
readx;? King Mu gave Kunwu clan, fifteen golden rings [empty edges and other rings], thirty shell ornaments, and four cloths. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Kunwu worship and accept gifts. King Mu also gave twelve cattle to Kunwu at the request of the Kunwu clan [for the purpose of improving the local breed, the local cattle may be bison, not as tame as the ox], and left more than 30 people in Kunlun Hill to take care of the palace of the Yellow Emperor.
On the second day of the first month of June (Ji Xia Ding Mao Day), King Mu went north and climbed the Chung Mountain (Baxiantai, Taibai County, Baoji, Shaanxi), this time is the only opportunity to climb the year-round snow Baxiantai, King Mu waited for more than two months, just to climb the main peak of Kunlun Mountain in his eyes. King Mu looked at the four fields on the mountain and said, "Spring Mountain, it is a unique high mountain!" King Mu found a kind of breeding tree on the snow-covered mountain, which bloomed without fear of snow, so King Mu took the seeds of the seed, brought it back, and ordered people to plant this plant.
The snow near Chung Shan turns into a lake, and the clear water comes out of the spring, which is mild and windless, and birds and beasts come to drink. King Mu obtained the Ying of Yurong Zhisi in the lake [Ying, the essence of jade. "Corpse" said "Longquan has Yuying". 〕。 Near Chunshan, hundreds of beasts and birds gather, the (yi) beasts that can eat tigers and leopards, such as deer and bone, plate (of) from the beginning like a deer, small head and big nose [deer is also]. There are also red leopards, white tigers, bears, jackals, wild horses, bison, goats, and wild boars. There are also white eagles, dogs and sheep, and wild boars and deer.
King Mu watched the scenery on the top of Chung Shan for five days, and then remembered the stone (similar to xxx visiting here).
On the seventh day of the sixth month (Renshen Day), King Mu marched westward.
On the ninth day of the sixth month (Jiaxu Day), King Mu arrived at Qishan (Qishan County, Baoji, Shaanxi), where the Chiwu clan lived. The leader of the Chiwu clan offered to King Mu a thousand pieces of wine, 900 wild horses, 3,000 sheep and cattle, and wheat (wheat from the West) for 100 years [the amount that a hundred people could choose]. When Zhou became king, wheat had been introduced to China, but at that time, people did not grind noodles, they were directly boiled and eaten, so it was grain food. It's not very delicious, and it's not as popular as millet.
King Mu ordered his father to receive the gift, and King Mu recalled the history of the Chiwu clan: the Chiwu clan was originally from the Zhou clan. When Gu Gong's father established the foundation of the Zhou clan under Qishan, the eldest son Taibo let the country enter Wu, at that time, Gu Gong named him a prince, and awarded the punishment of the golden blade, and at the same time sealed the patriarch of the Bi clan at that time, Ji Xuan, and gave his eldest daughter to Ji Xuan, and awarded the punishment of jade, since then the Bi clan is mainly Zhou, and the Bi clan is also known as the Chiwu clan.
At that time, the criminal law could not be used at will, and could only be seen by the lord himself, even his own son, and could not be used if he saw it, otherwise it would be trespassing. And if you want to govern your own country, you must use criminal law, and Gu Gong gave them the criminal law used by Zhou, which is a favor. In ancient times, the implementation of criminal law did not require the person being punished to know which law was violated, but the person who was punished only needed to know that he had violated the law, and the letter of the law was only in the heart of the Lord.
King Mu gave Chiwu clan, four silent rides [Zhou Li, Doctor Bingmo Che], 40 gold Eridium [2 taels for Eridium], 50 shell belts, and 300 wraps. The leader of the Chiwu clan worshiped and accepted, and he said to King Mu: Qishan is a rare good place in the world. There is the production of jade, the growth of Jiagu (good chestnut rice), and the plants and trees (wild vegetables, wild grasses) are beautiful. The Son of Heaven then took Jiahe (including Jiagu, grass and trees) and ordered people to bring them back to the Central Plains to multiply. King Mu rested at the foot of Qishan Mountain for five days, played music, and presented two local beauties (female listening and female column) to King Mu to serve King Mu. King Mu praised with satisfaction: Chiwu clan, the land of beauty, and the place of jade.
On June 14 (Jimao Day), King Mu traveled northward, rushed to several houses [she, thirty li] in one day, crossed Shaanxi, and reached the Yanghe River valley (Jing River, Pingliangjingchuan County, Gansu).
The Jing River is the first major tributary of the Wei River, the largest tributary of the Yellow River, that is, the secondary tributary of the Yellow River. It originates from the eastern foot of Liupan Mountain in Ningxia, the south source comes from the old Longtan of Jingyuan County, the north source comes from Guyuan Dawan Town, and the confluence of Pingliang Bali Bridge, flows east through Pingliang and Jingchuan into Changwu County, Shaanxi Province in Yangjiaping, and then passes through Zhengping, Tingkou, Binxian, Jingyang, etc., and flows into the Wei River in Chenjiatan, Gaoling District. The total length of the Jing River is 455.1 kilometers.
According to the ancient saying: the ocean water flows out of the northwest of Kunlun Mountain and flows eastward. As mentioned earlier, Kunlun Mountain is a series of mountain ranges from Qincui to Altun Mountains, including Liupan Mountain, so the Jing River meets this characteristic, and is located about 100 kilometers north of Qishan County, which is in line with the saying that King Mu traveled in a hurry.
On the 15th day of June (Gengchen Day), King Mu took a boat on the ocean water.
On June 16 (Xin Si Day), King Mu entered the tribe of Xifang conquered by Cao State, and the leader of the Xifang went to the boat on the ocean water to present gifts to King Mu, eating 900 horses, 7,000 cattle and sheep, and 100 carts of rice. King Mu ordered Feng Gu to receive the gift [Feng Gu, Doctor Zhou]. King Mu gave the deer of gold, the deer of silver, the belt of forty, and the four hundred wraps. Drama is worship.
On the 17th day of the sixth month, King Mu continued northward and then turned eastward.
On the 19th of June (Jiashen Day), King Mu arrived at the Honglu on the side of Heishui [the water also flows out of the northwest of the Kunlun Mountains and flows southeast].
Heihe: Also known as the Wei River. It belongs to the first-class tributary of Jing River, originates in Liupan Mountain, the eastern foot of Longshan (behind the Shangguan Jar Liang in the southeast of Huating County, Gansu Province), flows through Huating, Zhengxin, Lingtai and Jingchuan four counties in the east, and goes to the Zhurenjing River in Tingkou Town, Changwu County, Shaanxi Province, with a length of 168 kilometers.
After King Mu arrived in Heishui, it rained for seven consecutive days, and King Mu was here, so that the Liuxu clan was responsible for receiving the subordinates of the six divisions who arrived later [King Mu Ma Jun and Yuliang, so he went out of front of the crowd]. King Mu was the reception of the Xie Liuxu clan, and the leader of the Liuxu clan was located in the west river of Heishui [that is, the west bank of the black water], located in the upper reaches of the black water above the heron, and the Liuxu clan was dominated by the Zhou Dynasty. It is known as the state of Liuxu.
On the twenty-sixth day of the sixth month (Xinmao Day), King Mu marched northward, turned again, and returned east along Heishui.
On the twenty-eighth day of June (癸巳日), King Mu arrived at the Jade Mountain, where the Rongcheng clan, one of the co-leaders of the tribal alliance after the Fuxi clan, lived here.
The mountain of jade, that is, the back mountain, is located on the "back mountain" in the west of Pingliangjingchuan County, Gansu Province. There is the Queen Mother Palace on the mountain, which is the ancestral temple of the Queen Mother of the West, which is the birthplace, birthplace and the location of its ancestral temple of the Queen Mother of the West. It was built in the Yuanfeng period of the Western Han Dynasty. Tang Dynasty Duan Chengshi wrote in "Youyang Miscellaneous Tales and Nuo Ji I": "The surname of the Queen Mother of the West is Yang, and she is in the northwest corner of Kunlun. This sentence is a reflection of the place name of the place, which can explain why Jingchuan is called Huizhong, and the mountain is also called Huishan. By the Tang Dynasty at the latest, Jingchuan Huizhong Mountain had become a nationally recognized holy place for the Queen Mother of the West.