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Guiyi Circuit

Zhang Chengfeng then declared the establishment of Jinshan State (金山國 Jīnshānguó) and himself "Son of Heaven" (a title for sovereigns).

Tale of King Mu, Son of Heaven

He was determined to visit the Western heavenly paradise of Xi Wangmu, the Queen Mother of the West on the Kunlun Mountain and taste her peaches of immortality.

The Tale of King Mu, Son of Heaven is an early textually extant narrative case of Chinese biography stressing a particular heroic human, though biography, apparently fantastic or considered credible, is a chief format of Chinese literature from its outset with focus on sovereigns and their exploits, particularly with governmental preoccupation with geography through the peripheries of the emergent Chinese state.


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