Chapter 13 The Book of Mountains and Seas and the Nine Overseas East Longitude

Overseas from southeast Zou (z#u) to northeast Zou. 【Translation】Overseas countries, regions, hills and rivers from the southeast corner to the northeast corner are as follows. (ji5) Qiu, there are Yiyu, Qingma, Shirou, Yangliu, Gansu (zh1), Ganhua.Born of Gan Guo, in the East China Sea.There are two hills with trees on them.One is called Qiqiu.One said that Baiguo is located in the east of Yao's burial. 【Translation】Qiu, there are relics of jade, green horses, flesh-seeking monsters, willow trees, tamarind trees, and ganhua trees here.The place where the tree that bears sweet fruit grows is by the East Sea.There are hills between two mountains, and there are trees on them.Another way of saying is that Qiu is Qiqiu.There is also a saying that the place where various fruit trees exist is to the east of the place where Emperor Yao was buried.

The kingdom of adults is in the north, and it is the National People's Congress, which sits and cuts (sh4o) the boat ①.One said it was in (ji5) Qiubei. [Note] ① Cut the boat: The two characters of cut and shoot are homophonic under the guise of borrowing.Tip is a long pole, which is used as a verb here.A stern boat is a boat that is punted with a long pole. 【Translation】The kingdom of adults is to the north of it, where the people are tall and tall, sitting on boats and punting.One theory holds that the Kingdom of Daren is to the north of the hill. The corpse of Shebi is in the north, with an animal body, human face, big ears, Er (7r) and two green snakes.One said that the corpse of the liver elm was in the north of the adult.

[Notes] ①Shebi: Also called Shelong, the legendary god. [Translation] Shebishi is located in the north of Daren Kingdom, where the people have the bodies of beasts, human faces, and big ears, with two green snakes hanging on them.Another theory holds that the Ganelm Corpse God is in the north of Daren Kingdom. The gentleman's country is in the north, dressed in hats and swords①, eats animals, and makes two (big) [wen] tigers by his side, and his people are good (h4o) and will not fight.There are Lavender, life and death.One is in the north of the dead body of the liver elm. [Notes] ①Clothes and crowns: They are all used as verbs here, that is, put on clothes and hats.

[Translation] Junzi Kingdom is in the north of Shebishi God, where people wear clothes and hats and wear swords on their waists, can eat wild animals, and the two spotted tigers are at their side. They like to be humble and not fight.There is a kind of lavender, which blooms in the morning and withers in the evening.Another theory holds that the Junzi Kingdom is to the north of the Ganelm Corpse God. ■■（h￥ngh￥ng）in its north ①, each has two songs.One said it was in the north of Junzi Country. [Notes] ①■■: It is Hongni, commonly known as the beauty rainbow.According to the ancients, the one with double rainbows and bright colors is called a male, and the one with a dull color is a female, called Ni.

【例句】■■On its north side, it has two heads at each end.Another way of saying is that ■ ■ is in the north of Junzi Kingdom. Chao (zh1o) Valley of Yang, the god called Tianwu, is Shui Bo.In ■■ (h￥ngh￥ng) between the two waters in the north.It is also a beast, with eight human faces, eight legs and eight tails, (all) [backs] blue and yellow. [Translation] Chaoyang Valley, there is a god named Tianwu, who is called Shuibo.He lives between the two streams on the north side.He is in the shape of a beast, with eight heads instead of a human face, eight claws and eight tails, and a blue-yellow back.

Qingqiu country is to the north.Its fox has four legs and nine tails.One is in the north of Chaoyang. [Translation] Qingqiu country is to the north of it.There is a fox with four claws and nine tails. Another theory holds that Qingqiu Kingdom is in the north of Chaoyang Valley. The emperor ordered Shuhai (h4i) steps ①, from the East Pole to the West Pole, 9,800 steps out of 500 million and 100 ②.Shu Hai counts with his right hand ③, and his left finger points to the north of Qingqiu.One is called Yu ordered Shuhai.One said five hundred and ninety-nine thousand eight hundred steps. [Notes] ① Shuhai: A legendary god-man who walks very fast. ②Selection: ten thousand. ③ Calculate: pass "筭".Chips used by ancient people for counting.

[Translation] The Emperor of Heaven ordered Shuhai to measure the earth with his feet. From the easternmost point to the westernmost point, it is five hundred million ten nine thousand eight hundred steps.Shu Hai held the counting chip in his right hand, and pointed to the north of Qingqiu Kingdom with his left hand.Another theory is that Dayu ordered Shuhai to measure the earth.There is also a saying that 509,800 steps were measured. The country of black teeth is to the north, people are black [tooth], eat rice and eat (d4n) snake①, one red and one green, beside it. One is said to be in the north of Shuhai, a man with a black head, who eats rice and makes snakes, one of which is red.

[Notes] ① Eat: Eat. ②This text describes the images on the original screen. [Translation] The Black Tooth Country is to the north of it, where people have black teeth, eat rice and snakes, and there are a red snake and a green snake around him.Another theory holds that the Black Tooth Kingdom is to the north of where Shuhai is located, and the people there are black-headed, eating rice and driving snakes, one of which is red. There is soup (y2ng) valley ① below.There is Fusang in Tanggu, which is bathed for ten days, in the north of Heizhi.Living in the water, there is a big tree, which lives in the lower branches for nine days and the upper branches for one day.

【Notes】①Xiayou: "Xiayou" refers to "upper". The original picture naturally shows what is above, but the picture no longer exists, and the explanatory text has not described it, so I don't know what it refers to.Tanggu: According to the ancients, the water in this valley is very hot. 【Translation】There is soup valley below.There is a hibiscus tree beside Tanggu, which is the place where ten suns bathe, and it is in the north of Heizhi country.Just in the middle of the big water, there was a tall tree, nine suns perched on the lower branch of the tree, and one sun perched on the upper branch of the tree.

Master Yu's concubine is in the north.It is black, holding a snake in each hand, with a green snake in its left ear and a red snake in its right ear. One day, in the north of the ten days, they were black-skinned and face-faced, and each fucked a tortoise. [Translation] Yushiqiu Country is in the north of Tanggu.The people there are all black, holding a snake in each hand, with a blue snake hanging on the left ear and a red snake hanging on the right ear.Another way of saying is that the Yushiqiu Kingdom is to the north of where the ten suns are located, and the people there have black bodies and human faces, holding a turtle in each hand.

The country of Xuangu is to the north.It is fish food ■(#u)①, and two birds catch it.One said that it was in the north of the concubine of Master Yu. [Note] ①Yardfish: Wear clothes made of fish skin.Food ■: ■Also known as "gull", that is, gull birds, those that move by the sea are called seagulls, and those that move by the river are called river gulls.Food ■Instant gulls are to eat the eggs laid by gulls. [Translation] Xuangu Kingdom is to the north of it.The people there wear fish skin clothes and eat gull and bird eggs, and the two birds they call are by their side.Another theory holds that Xuangu Kingdom is to the north of Yushiqiu Kingdom. The country of Maomin is in the north.Hair for the human body.One said it was in the north of Xuangu. 【Translation】Mao Minguo is to the north of it.The people there are covered with hair.Another theory holds that Mao Minguo is to the north of Xuangu Kingdom. The Republic of Lao is in the north, and it is black.Or teach the people.One day, in Maominbei, he was completely black in appearance and hands and feet. 【Translation】Lao Minguo is to the north of it, and the people there are all black.Some people call Lao Minguo Jiao Minguo.Another theory holds that Lao Minguo is in the north of Mao Minguo, where people's faces, eyes, hands and feet are all black. Oriental sentence (g#u) Mount ①, with a bird body and a human face, rides two dragons. [Notes] ① Gou Mang: The wood god in myths and legends. 【Translation】The God of Jumang in the East has the body of a bird and the face of a man, riding two dragons. In April of the first year of Jianping, Bingwu waited for Taichang's subordinate minister Wang Xiaozhi, and served Gong, the Xunchen of Guanglu, and Chenxiu, the official of Che Duwei, Guanglu, who served as the governor of the province①. [Note] ① This text is not the original text, but the signature of the collator after finishing the collation work on the text of this volume. Jianping is the year name of Emperor Ai of the Western Han Dynasty, and the first year of Jianping is equivalent to the sixth year BC.Xiu is Liu Xiu, originally called Liu Xin, but later renamed Xiu. He was born in the late Western Han Dynasty and was a famous Confucian scholar and bibliographer.He once inherited his father Liu Xiang's career, led and presided over the work of sorting out ancient books and compiling catalogs, and made great achievements. [Translation] On Bingwu Day in April of the first year of Jianping, Ding Wang, a minister of Taichang Taichang, waited for proofreading and sorting out, and Wang Gong, an official of Shizhong Guanglu Xun, and Liu Xiu, a minister of Shizhong Fengche Duwei Guanglu, took the lead in presiding.