User:Emmasmithx/sandbox

My name is Emma and I am from Hereford. I like it there. I like dogs.

I also like chocolate.

The first known references to the Yuezhi are contained in the Yizhoushu (逸周書), Guanzi 管子(Guanzi Essays: 73: 78: 80: 81) and Tale of King Mu, Son of Heaven. The dates of the most common version of this book are disputed, however, and it may date to as late as the 1st century BCE. The book described the Yuzhi 禺氏, or Niuzhi 牛氏, as a people from the northwest who supplied jade to the Chinese. The supply of jade from the Tarim Basin from ancient times is indeed well documented archaeologically: "It is well known that ancient Chinese rulers had a strong attachment to jade. All of the jade items excavated from the tomb of Fuhao (妇好) of the Shang dynasty, more than 750 pieces, were from Khotan in modern Xinjiang. As early as the mid-first millennium BCE the Yuezhi engaged in the jade trade, of which the major consumers were the rulers of agricultural China." (Liu (2001), pp. 267–268). During the Warring States period, the Chinese also turned to the Yuezhi for the supply of good horses. The suffix Di or Zhi (Chinese:氐) was generally used to describe the Di people, called "Western barbarians", in Han Dynasty-era Chinese annals.