{"book":"adl0978","page":36,"text":"travelled through scores of cities to arrive at the capital, and\nsaw the great number of subjects of that country. When the\nHan envoy returned, Anhsi dispatched, its envoy to accompany\nhim to see the greatness of Han and present the Emperor with\nthe great bird's eggs and Lihsien magicians. Later the small\ncountries to the west of Tayuan, namely, Huanchien and Tayi,\nand those to its east, namely, Chushih, Kanmi and Suhsieh, also sent\nenvoys taking gifts to the Emperor. The Emperor was much\npleased. The Han envoys also traced the source of the Yellow River\nto Yutien from where the envoys took back jades and other precious\nstones which were abundantly found in the mountains. According\nto ancient books and maps, the Emperor named the mountain from\nwhich the Yellow River started the Kunlun Mountain.\n\nDuring that period the Emperor made several inspection tours\nof the coastal areas, on which the foreign guests were taken along.\nThey were made to visit the bigger cities, and given awards of\nmoney and silk cloth, and rich entertainments, so as to show the\nrichness of Han. They were shown wrestling, juggling and other\nstrange things which attracted many crowds. Parties were thrown\nwith lakes of wine and forests of meat. The foreign guests were\nalso shown all the granaries and storehouses. Thus they were\nstunned at the greatness of Han. With the addition of the art of\nthe magicians, the games of wrestling, juggling and other shows were\nyearly augmented and changed to form a flourishing fashion.\n\nHenceforth envoys from the foreign countries to the northwest\ncame and went frequently. But the countries to the west of Tayuan,\nbeing far away, were yet self-conceited and arrogant, and not to\nbe brought to obeisance. Those from Usun westward to Anhsi\nwere near Hsiungnu. Seeing that Hsiungnu had brought Yuehchih\nto its knees, they safeguarded and entertained envoys of Hsiungnu\ntaking messages of the Khan from country to country, and dared not\ndetain or mistreat them. But when Han envoys came to those\ncountries, they had to pay money for their food, and buy the\nhorses they rode. The reason was that Han was far away and\nrich in resources. So the people in those countries were afraid of\n—14—","chars":2209,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0978/00036.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":51,"title":"Tāyān : faṣl-i 123 Shī Chī yā asnād-i tārīkhī تايان : فصل ١٢٣ شى چى ىا اسناد تاريخى","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0978/36","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0978/canvas/36","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0978/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0978_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}