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{{cquote2|I myself have travelled west as far as [[Muntanyes Kongtong]], north past [[Comtat de Zhuolu|Cho-lu]], east to the sea, and in the south I have sailed the rius [[Riu Groc|Groc]] i [[Huai He]]. The elders and old men of these various lands frequently pointed out to me the places where the [[Emperador Groc]], [[Emperador Yao|Yao]], I [[Emperador Shun|Shun]] had lived, and in these places the manners and customs seemed quite different. In general those of their accounts which do not differ from the ancient texts seem to be near to the truth. |Sima Qian, translation by [[Burton Watson]] <ref>{{cite book |author=Burton Watson |title=Ssu Ma Ch'ien Grand Historian Of China |page=183 |chapter=Selected Translation From the Shih Chi |url=http://archive.org/stream/ssumachiengrandh012602mbp#page/n195/mode/2up |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=1958 }}</ref>}}
