Volume 16: The Classic of Northern Great Wilderness

Guo Pu's annotation

Outside the northwest sea, on the edge of desolation, there is a mountain with an incomplete shape, which is called Buzhou Fuzi. This mountain is guarded by two yellow mythical beasts. There is also a river named Hanshu Water. There is a wet mountain to the west of the river and a curtain mountain to the east. In this area, Dayu once attacked the Gonggong Kingdom.

There is a country called Shushi, which was founded by Zhuanxu's descendants.

There are also ten gods who were transformed from Nuwa's intestines. They live in the wilderness of Liguang and lie on the roads.

There was a man named Shi Yi who could summon the wind. He was called Wei. He lived in the northwest and was responsible for managing the length of the sun and the moon. There is a colorful bird with a crown on its head, called the bird.

There is another mountain range, Changshan Mountain in Daze. In this area, there is a country inhabited by people with fair skin, which is called the country of the white people.

Outside the northwest sea, east of Chishui, there is a country where the people's legs are particularly long, known as the country of long shanks.

There is a country called Western Zhou, whose surname is Ji, and the people there live on grains. There was a man named Shujun who was farming. Emperor Jun gave birth to Hou Ji, who brought various grains. Hou Ji's younger brother was named Tai 𫊱, and Tai 𫊱 gave birth to Shujun. Shujun inherited the work of his father and Houji and began to sow various grains and cultivate for the first time. There is also a country called Chiguo with a wife family. There are two mountains standing side by side.

Beyond the West Sea, in the vast wasteland, there is a mountain called Fangshan. There are green trees growing on the mountain. This kind of tree is called the cabinet pine, which is the place where the sun and the moon rise and set. Beyond the Northwest Sea, to the west of Chishui, there is a country where people live on grains and can drive four kinds of birds.

There is a country called Beidi, which was founded by Huangdi's grandson Shijun, who was the ancestor of Beidi.

There is a mountain called Mangshan. And Guishan. There is a mountain called Qishan, and there lives a man named Prince Changqin on the mountain. Zhuanxu begat Laotong, Laotong begat Zhu Rong, and Zhu Rong begat Prince Changqin, who lived in Yaoshan. Prince Changqin was the first person to compose music.

There are three kinds of colorful birds, one is called the emperor bird, one is called the luan bird, and the other is called the phoenix bird.

There is a kind of insect that is shaped like a breast, but the back is exposed. It looks like an ape and is blue in color.

There is a mountain in the vast wasteland called Fengju. There is the Yumen and the place where the sun and moon rise and set.

There is a mountain called Lingshan, where the ten wizards, Wu Xian, Wu Ji, Wu Ban, Wu Peng, Wu Gu, Wuzhen, Wu Li, Wuda, Wu Xie and Wuluo ascended and descended. There are also various kinds of trees growing there. Plant medicinal materials. To the west is the Queen Mother's Mountain, and there are mountains and seamounts there. There is a country called Wo, and the people of Wo live there. In the fertile wilderness, people ate the eggs of the phoenix and drank the nectar. Any taste they wished for could be found in the fertile fields. There are Ganhua, Ganqi, Bailiu, Shirou, Sanzhu, Xuangui, Yaobi, Baimu, Langgan, Baidan, Qingdan, and rich silver and iron resources. The Luan bird sings by itself, and the Phoenix bird dances by itself. There are also various wild animals there, and they live together in groups. This is the wilderness of Wo.

There are three bluebirds with red heads and black eyes. They are called the big bird, the little bird and the bluebird respectively.

There is a mountain called Xuanyuan Terrace. Archers dare not shoot to the west because they are afraid of Xuanyuan Terrace.

In the vast wasteland, there is a mountain called Longshan, where the sun and moon rise and set. There are three swamps, called Sanao, which are the source of food for the Kunwu people.

There was a person wearing cyan clothes and covering his face with sleeves, named Nvchou Zhizhi. There is a country out there with only women.

There are Taoshan, Gyushan, Guishan and Yutushan. There is also a country where there are only men.

There is a mountain called Danzhou. There are colorful birds on the mountain looking up at the sky. These birds are called songbirds. There are various musical instruments and singing and dancing are popular there.

There is a country called Xuanyuan Kingdom, located south of the river. The people there live very long, and even those who do not live long can live to be eight hundred years old.

On the shore of the West Sea, there is a god with a human face and a bird's body. He has two green snakes hanging on his ears and two red snakes stepping on his feet. This god is called Yizi.

In the vast wasteland, there is a mountain called Riyue Mountain, which is Tianshu. Wu Jiao Tianmen, where the sun and moon rise and set. There is a god who has a human face but no arms, and his feet are on his head backwards. This god is called Hush. Zhuanxu gave birth to Laotong, and Laotong gave birth to Chonghe Li. The emperor ordered Li to ascend to heaven again and ordered Li to descend to earth. Li choked after going to the ground. He lived in the West Pole and was responsible for managing the order of the sun, moon and stars.

There is a man whose arms are long backwards, named Tianyu.

A woman is bathing in the moon. Emperor Jun's wife Chang Xi gave birth to twelve moons, and this was when she began to bathe in the moon. There is a mountain called Xuandan Mountain, where there are birds of five colors. These birds have human faces and hair. There are blue birds, yellow birds, blue birds, and yellow birds. Where these birds gather, that country will perish.

There is a pond called Meng Yi Zhi Gong, which is Zhuan Xu's pond.

In the vast wasteland, there is a mountain called Qiaoju Mountain, where the sun and moon set.

There is a kind of beast with a head on each side of its body, named Pingpeng.

There is a mountain called Wushan. There is another one called Heshan. There is also the Golden Gate Mountain. There is a man named Huang Jizhi. There is a kind of flying bird. There is also a white bird with cyan wings, a yellow tail and a black beak. There is a red dog called the Tengu. Wherever it goes, there will be wars.

To the south of the West Sea, on the shore of the quicksand, behind the Red River and before the Black River, there is a large mountain called Kunlun Hill. There was a god there with the face of a man and the body of a tiger, with patterns and a tail on his body, and his whole body was white. Below the Kunlun Hill is surrounded by the Weak Water Abyss. There is a mountain of fire outside the mountain, and anything thrown into it will burn. There was a person who wore a crown of victory, had tiger teeth, and a leopard tail, and lived in a cave, and her name was the Queen Mother of the West. This mountain holds everything in the world.

In the vast wasteland, there is a mountain called Changyang Mountain, where the sun and moon set.

There is a country called the Land of Cold Desolation, and there are two people there named Nuji and Numi.

There is a country called Shouma Country. Nanyue married Zhoushan's daughter, named Nuqian. Nü Qian gave birth to Jige, and Jige gave birth to Shouma. There was no shadow when Shouma stood, and there was no echo when he called. There is a hot place there that people cannot go to.

There was a man without a head, standing with a spear and a shield in his hands, named Xia Geng's Corpse. In the past, Cheng Tang attacked Xia Jie in Zhangshan, defeated him, and beheaded Xia Geng in front of him. After Xia Geng stood up, he ran away and made mistakes because he had no head, and finally landed in Wushan. There was a man named Wu Hui who had an abnormal left arm and no right arm.

There is a country called the Land of Gaishan. There is a tree there with red bark, green trunk and leaves. This tree is called Zhumu. The inhabitants there only have one arm.

In the vast wasteland, there is a mountain called the Great Wasteland Mountain, where the sun and moon set. There is a man with three faces in the mountains. He is the son of Zhuanxu. This person has three faces and one arm. People with three faces will not die. This is the origin of the wilderness.

Outside the Southwest Sea, south of Chishui and west of quicksand, there is a man named Xia Houkai with two green snakes hanging on his ears and riding two dragons. Xia Houkai offered sacrifices to the three concubines in heaven and received Jiubian and Jiuge. This is the Wilderness of Tianmu, with a height of two thousand feet. Xia Houkai obtained the Beginning Song of Nine Moves here.

There is a country called the Country of Huren, which was founded by Ling Kai, the grandson of Emperor Yan. The soul gives birth to mutual beings, and they can move freely up and down in the heaven.

There is a kind of fish with a dry side of its body, called the Fish Woman. When Zhuanxu dies, it will revive. When the north wind blows, heavy rain will fall from the sky, and the snake will turn into a fish. This is the origin of the fish woman. Whenever Zhuanxu dies, it will revive.

There is a kind of blue bird with a yellow body, red feet, and six heads, which is called 𪇆bird.

There is a Great Wu Mountain and a Golden Mountain. In the corner of the southwest wilderness, there is a mountain called Bengouchangyang Mountain.

It was opened immediately after the Xia Dynasty. This was to avoid tabooing the name of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty.