Mu Tianzi Zhuan - Sino-Platonic Papers

YU Taishan, “The Communication Lines between East and West as Seen in the Mu Tianzi Zhuan”
Sino-Platonic Papers, 197 (January, 2010)
In the above analysis, some tribes’ names are understood to be different transcriptions of
the same name. Here are such two cases:
1 對於族屬相同的不同部落或部族,往往采用不同的漢字表示。例如:“焉居”和
“巨蒐”均係 Asii 人,“禺知”和“骨飦”均係 Gasiani,“赤烏”、“珠余”和“余”均係
Sacarauli,“重豅”和“西夏”均係 Tochari 人,但均不在一地,不屬於同一部落或部族。 33
1 With regard to two different tribes that had the same origin, the Chinese historical
records often adopt different Chinese characters. For example: “Yanju” and “Jusou” were the
Asii; “Yuzhi” and “Gugan” were the Gasiani; “Chiwu,” “Zhuyu” and “Shouyu” were the
Sacarauli; “Zhongyong” and “Xi Xia” were the Tochari; but they did not live at the same place;
they were subjects of the same tribe. 33
2 《穆天子傳》成書前有一個口口相傳的過程,對於同一種人或同一個部落有時使
用不同的譯名,可能是在這一過程中造成的,最後寫定者未加詳察。“䣙人”與“無夷”便是
一個例子。
2 The Mu Tianzi Zhuan was passed on in an oral tradition before it was compiled.
Adopting different translated terms for the same people or tribes occurred during this process.
The people who finalized the book did not give the names a detailed examination. “Peng people”
and “Wuyi” offer just one example.
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《穆天子傳》卷一所述穆天子西征歷程如下:
The westward journey of Mu, the Son of Heaven, as seen in the Mu Tianzi Zhuan, ch. 1,
was as follows:
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