Mu Tianzi Zhuan - Sino-Platonic Papers

山谷。
YU Taishan, “The Communication Lines between East and West as Seen in the Mu Tianzi Zhuan”
Sino-Platonic Papers, 197 (January, 2010)
4.6.1 “乙亥、天子南征陽紆之東尾。乃遂絕穼첿之谷”。穼첿之谷,或係大青山某
4.6.1 “On the day yihai, the Son of Heaven proceeded southward, reached the eastern
range of Mount Yangyu, and then crossed the Biyao Valley.” The Biyao Valley may be a valley
in the Da Qing Mountains.
4.6.2 “[辛]已,至于ꆎ눞,河水之北阿。爰有ꥻ溲之□、河伯之孫,事皇天子之
山”。ꆎ눞,今狼山之東北,所事皇天子之山應卽燕然之山。蓋“河伯之孫”云云應卽卷一“河
宗柏夭逆天子燕然之山”。 61
4.6.2 “On the day [xin]si, [the Son of Heaven] arrived at Qixuan on the northern bank of
the [Yellow] River. There was in this region [a mountain called] Tangsou, where the descendants
of He Bo (the Earl of the [Yellow] River) attended upon the Great Son of Heaven.” Qixuan is
situated to the northeast of the present Mount Lang where the Great Son of Heaven was attended
should be the present Mount Yanran. The reference “the descendants of the Earl of River” and so
on refers to the statement that “Bo Yao, the Hezong people, welcomed the Son of Heaven at
Mount Yanran." 61
4.7 “癸丑,天子東征。柏夭送天子至于䣙人。䣙伯絮觴天子于澡澤之上,鬭多之汭,
河水之所南還。曰天子五日休于澡澤之上,以待六師之人”。澡澤卽卷一所見滲澤。鬭多之
汭,在今包頭至托克托一帶。 62
4.7 “On the day guichou, the Son of Heaven proceeded eastward and Bo Yao escorted
him to [the domain of] the Peng people. Peng Bo Xu entertained the Son of Heaven at the Zao
Lake on the bank of the Faduo River. This is the place where the [Yellow] River flows
southward. It is said that the Son of Heaven rested at Zao Lake for five days, waiting for his six
divisions of soldiers, which he had left behind.” “Zao Lake” is the same as Shen Lake seen in ch.
1. The Faduo River is situated in the regions from Togto to Baotou. 62
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