Chapter 14 Volume 10 of the Classic of Mountains and Seas

Those west of Zou (z#u) in the southeast of the country. 【Translation】The countries, regions, hills and rivers in the sea from the southeast corner to the west are as follows. Ou lives in the sea.Min is in the sea, and there are mountains in the northwest.One said that the Minzhong Mountains are in the sea. 【Translation】Ou is in the sea.Min is in the sea, and there is a mountain in the northwest of it.Another theory holds that the mountains of Fujian are in the sea. The three-day Zizhang (zh1ng) mountain is in the west (sea) north of Fujian.One is in the sea. 【Translation】Three sons Zhangshan is in the northwest of Fujian.Another theory holds that the Three Sons of Heaven are in the sea.

Eight trees in Guilin, in the east of Fan (p1n). [Translation] The eight trees in Guilin are so large that they form a forest, located to the east of Fanyu. The countries of Bolu, Li'er, Diaoti, and Beiqu (q*) are all in the south of Yushui.Yushui flows out of Xiangling south (sea) [mountain].One is (phase) [Bo] concern. [Translation] The countries of Bolu, Li'er, Diaoti, and Beiqu are all on the south bank of Yushui.Yushui originated from Nanshan Mountain in Xiangling.Another way of saying is that the country of Bolu is called the country of Bolu. Xiao (xi1o) Yang Kingdom is in the west of Beiqu (q*).It has a long lip, a black body with hair, and a back-heeled face. When it sees people (smiles) [then] it smiles; it controls with its left hand.

【Translation】Xiaoyang Kingdom is to the west of Beiqu Kingdom.The people there have human faces and long lips, black bodies with long hairs, heels in front and toes behind, and they laugh when they see people; they hold a bamboo tube in their left hand. Si (s@) is buried in the east of Shun and south of Xiangshui.Its shape is like a cow, pale and black, with one horn. [Translation] Si is to the east of Emperor Shun's burial site, on the south bank of the Xiangshui River.Si is shaped like an ordinary cow, with a black body and one horn. On the mountain of Cangwu, Emperor Shun was buried in Yang, and Emperor Danzhu was buried in Yin.

[Translation] Cangwu Mountain, Emperor Shun was buried on the south side of this mountain, and Emperor Danzhu was buried on the north side of this mountain. It is three hundred miles away from Fanlin, east of Fanxuan (x9ngx9ng). [Notes] ①Fan Lin: It is the Fan Lin mentioned above. [Translation] Fanlin has a radius of three hundred miles, east of the place where the orangutans live. You know the name of a person, he is a beast like a hog (sh!) and a human face, in the west of Shun's burial. 【Translation】The orangutan can know people's names. This kind of beast is shaped like a pig but has a human face. It lives in the west of the burial place of Emperor Shun.

There is a rhinoceros (x9) ox in the northwest, which is black in shape like an ox. 【Translation】In the northwest of the orangutan, there is a rhinoceros, which is shaped like a normal cow and has a black body. Xia Houqi's minister was called Meng Tu, who was in charge of the god Yuba. [Ba] people (please) sue (s＾ng) at Meng Tu's place, and those who have blood on their clothes will be held.Is please give birth.Living on the mountain, in the west of Danshan.Danshan is in the south of Danyang, and Danyang (home) [Ba] belongs to it. [Translation] The courtier of King Qi of the Xia Dynasty was named Meng Tu, who was the god in charge of the lawsuit of Badi.People from Badi went to Meng Tu to file a complaint, and any of the complainants whose clothes were stained with blood was detained by Meng Tu.In this way, there will be no injustice and the virtue of living a good life.Meng Tu lived on a mountain to the west of Mount Dan.

Danshan is to the south of Danyang, which is a territory of Ba. Sassafras (zh2)窳(y*) dragon head, living in the weak water, in the west of the famous people, its shape is like [貙] (ch&) ①, dragon head, cannibal. [Note] ①貙: A wild cat-like beast with a slightly larger body. 【Translation】Yao Yu has a head like a dragon, lives in weak water, and is located to the west of the orangutan who can know people's names. It is shaped like a scorpion, has a dragon head, and can eat people. There is wood, its shape is like a cow, and it has skins like tassels and yellow snakes.Its leaves are like Luo①, but in fact they are like Luan②, and its wood is like sheung (#u)③, and its name is Jianmu.On the Sassafras (zh2) Sassafras (y*) West Weak Water.

[Note] ① Luo: A net for catching birds. ②Luan: A legendary tree with yellow roots, red branches and blue leaves. ③Yang: that is, thorn elm. 【Translation】There is a kind of tree whose shape is like an ox. When it is pulled, it peels off its bark, which looks like a tassel on a crown and a yellow snake skin.Its leaves are like a snare, its fruit is like that of a eucalyptus tree, its trunk is like a thorny elm, and its name is Jianmu.This kind of building wood grows on the edge of the weak water to the west of the place where Yuyu is located. Di (d!) Renguo is in the west of Jianmu. It has the face of everyone but the body of a fish, without feet.

【Translation】The country of Diren is to the west of where Jianmu is. The people there have human faces but fish bodies and no feet. Ba snakes eat elephants, and their bones emerge at the age of three. A gentleman takes it, and there is no heart disease.It is snake green, yellow, red, black, one is called black snake with green head, and it is in the west of rhinoceros. 【Translation】The Ba snake can swallow an elephant, and it takes three years to spit out the elephant's bones. Talented and virtuous people eat the meat of the Ba snake, and they don't suffer from heartache or stomach pain.The color of this snake is mixed with blue, yellow, red and black.Another theory holds that Ba snake has a black body and a blue head, and it is located to the west of the rhinoceros.

旄 (m2o) horse, its shape is like a horse, with four sections of hair.In the northwest of Bashe, south of Gaoshan. [Translation] Yanma, shaped like an ordinary horse, but with long hairs on the joints of the four legs.Yanma is to the northwest of where Bashe is located and to the south of a high mountain. The Xiongnu, the country of the opening question, and the country of the people are all in the northwest. 【Translation】The Xiongnu Kingdom, Kaiti Kingdom, and Lieren Kingdom are all in the northwest.