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On the twenty-fourth day of December (Jichou Day), King Mu climbed south to the Boshan Cave [a dangerous path in the mountains] and camped in Yuguo [Dayang County, Pinglu County, Yuncheng, Shanxi].

On the twenty-fifth day of December (Gengyin Day), King Mu traveled south.

On the twenty-sixth day of December (Xinmao Day), it was an auspicious day, and King Mu returned to the capital Nanzheng (Xinmi City, Zhengzhou, Henan).

year, the sixteenth year of King Mu of Zhou, King Mu of Zhou was rewarded for meritorious deeds, and the father was awarded to Zhaocheng (Hongdong County, Linfen, Shanxi) because of his timely driving of the royal carriage to send King Mu of Zhou to return to China to quell the rebellion.

The descendants of the father take Yi as the clan, that is, the surname Zhao is the first family of the Zhao country, which is the origin of the surname Zhao. The father is the ancestor of the future Zhao Kingdom. Therefore, as the fourth grandson of Fei Lian (also known as Fei Lian) surnamed Ying, the father was rewarded through the merits of Zhou's war against Xu, and he made a fortune, and a few decades later, there was a bad (Fei Lian's son, who died in battle when Zhou destroyed Shang) The fifth grandson of Fei Lian (also the nephew of the father) was sealed in Qinyi (Qinting Town, Qingshui County, Tianshui, Gansu) for his merits, and was the ancestor of the Qin State later. And the state of Xu, which was originally a descendant of the surname Ying, declined.

In the seventeenth year of King Mu of Zhou, King Mu of Zhou went west to Kunlun Hill to see the Queen Mother of the West. In fact, the kingdom of the Queen Mother of the West has always been Kunlun in Xirong, and it has always maintained a friendly relationship with the co-lord of the Central Plains. Its country is a matrilineal clan, its lord is a young beauty, Kunlun's lord has always been a woman, how many generations of the lord are called the Queen Mother of the West, it seems to be immortal, for the myth and legend of the Queen Mother of the West prototype. The legendary story of Chang'e running to the moon illustrates the belief that the Queen Mother of the West has an elixir of immortality.

Legend has it that King Zhou Mu and the Queen Mother of the West fell in love at first sight and shed a moving legend.

This year, when King Mu of Zhou returned to Zongzhou, the Queen Mother of the West of Kunlun came to make a pilgrimage and lived in Zhao Palace, and Zhao Palace was the sleeping palace of King Mu of Zhou in Zongzhou, which actually alluded to the fact that the two lived together.

In the seventeenth year of King Mu of Zhou, King Mu of Zhou set out from (Zong Zhou, Feng Hao, Chang'an) and marched westward, aiming at the place where the Queen Mother of the West lived. This trip is different from the previous ones, before, it was basically in the hinterland of the Central Plains east of Zongzhou, and this time it was to the west of Zongzhou.

King Mu soon arrived at Kunlun [Kunlun Mountain has five-colored water, and the red water flows out of the southeast corner and northeast. See the "Classic of Mountains and Seas"] of the sun of the red water (the north shore, the ancients believed that the south of the mountain and the north of the water are called the yang). From the later text, it is known that there is Kunlun Hill nearby, and Kunlun Hill is Kunlun Mountain according to the classic records, and Kunlun Mountain should refer to the foot of Kunlun Mountain.

According to geographical knowledge, Kunlun Mountain is far away in Qinghai, Xinjiang, and Sichuan, while Chishui is well known to the public and is also far away in the southwest of Sichuan and Guizhou.

However, with the unfavorable transportation conditions at that time, even if King Mu had the help of eight horses and carriages, how could he cross the mountains and dense forests to reach the southwest and even Xinjiang. And "The Biography of Mu Tianzi" does not say that he passed through other places in the middle, that is to say, the correct explanation should be that King Mu arrived at Kunlun shortly after starting from Zongzhou, and it is not far from Kunlun Hill, and it will not take a few days to travel.

It can be inferred from this that the Kunlun of King Mu, and even the Kunlun Hill, do not leave Shaanxi. So how do we explain the conflict between these place names and our common sense?

First of all, we need to make it clear that the Kunlun Mountain as it is called in modern times is not the same concept as the Kunlun Mountain in the ancient pre-Qin period. Kunlun Mountain in the ancient pre-Qin period was a kind of deified name for the ancestral mountain system of Kyushu, in fact, people at that time were not in a position to depict its whole picture. I only know that those lofty mountains are Kunlun Mountain. Therefore, Kunlun Mountain was the general name of the mountain system in central China at that time.

Observing the mountain trend map of China, the Qinling Mountains, Liupan Mountains, Qilian Mountains, and Altyn Mountains constitute a continuous mountain system map, becoming a solid barrier between the north and the south, and at that time there were no many mountain names that we took in modern times because of our understanding of geography, in the eyes of the people at that time, this is a dragon vein between heaven and earth, and the name of this dragon vein is the legendary Kunlun Mountain where the gods live.

So what is the Kunlun Mountain that modern people call it?

During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian sent an envoy to the Western Regions, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty called Kunlun Mountain the source of the Yellow River based on Zhang Qian's observations. The modern Kunlun Mountains are defined according to this concept. And the aforementioned Kunlun Mountains are not actually the source of the Yellow River.

According to the record of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", the ancient legend of Kunlun Mountain is the capital of the Yellow Emperor in the Nether. Kunlun Mountain has five-colored water. Legend has it that the Yellow River originated here (but it wasn't), flowing south and then eastward into Wuda. The red water also originates here, flowing southeast into the water of the sky. The ocean water also originates in the Kunlun Mountains and flows southwest into the water of Choutu. Black water also flows out of the Kunlun Mountains and flows southwest into Daqi. There are a lot of kiwi birds and beasts growing here.

Research based on actual geography:

Heihe, a tributary of the right bank of the Wei River, a tributary of the Yellow River, has a total length of 125.8 kilometers, and the basin is all in Zhouzhi County, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province (near Zongzhou). In ancient times, it was called Mangshui, and it was named after the Manggu Valley of the Qinling Mountains, and because of its black water color, it was called the Black River.

The Heihe River has two major headwaters, north and south. The north branch originates from the east side of the main peak of Taibai Mountain, Baxiantai, flows to the east and turns to the south, called the Hongshui River, flows eastward to the old field, accepts the Badou River, and flows to the mouth of the two rivers.

The second is the southern branch, which originates from the Quaternary glacial lake Eryehai on the south side of Baxiantai, the main peak of Taibai Mountain, flows southward through Sanyehai, Yuhuang Pond and Sanqing Pond, called Heihe, and receives the Yumai River to Diaoyutai, and flows eastward along the large fault block in the east-west direction. To the mouth of the Heihe River to accept the Huaerping River that originates from the bald head mountain of the main ridge of the Qinling Mountains at an altitude of 2838 meters, flows northward through Houjingzi Town, accepts the Qingshui River and the Taiping River, at the mouth of the two rivers, the confluence of the two major headwaters in the north and south, the Heihe River continues to flow eastward, passes through Shaliangzi, gradually turns to the northeast, turns the deep gorge between Laojunling and Zhongnan Mountain, and finally turns to the north, and then accepts the Banfang River, the Hubao River, the Wangjia River, the Chenjiagou, Liuye River, etc., out of Wujiazhuang in the southeast of Mazhao Town, flows into the Weihe Plain, receives the Shahe River at the Gaowang in Furen Township, turns eastward along the abandoned channel of the Wei River, accepts the Yuyu River, Tianyu River, Chiyu River, etc., and flows into the Wei River at Liangjiatan, Macun, Shangcun Town.

From this geographical feature, we can know that in the territory of Zhouzhi County, there is the Hongshui River, a major tributary of the Heihe River, which should be the Chishui in the "Biography of Mu Tianzi". The Kunlun Hill should refer to Taibai Mountain, the main peak of the Qinling Mountains.