Overview
Liu Bi was a ruler.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Life and dates
Attested activity
Places and affiliations
- Polity Wu kingdom 吳 · Relation Ruled
Assessments and attributes
- Item great granary 太倉 · Relation Owned · At Changzhou Marsh 長洲澤
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Book of Later Han, Chapter 122Volume 111: Commanderies and States Part Three · 1 passage
有長洲澤，吳王濞太倉在此。縣多麋。博物記曰：「千千爲群，掘食草根，其處成泥，名曰麋畯。民人隨此畯種稻，不耕而穫，其收百倍。」又扶海洲上有草名蒒，其實食之如大麥，從七月稔熟，民斂穫至冬乃訖，名曰自然穀，或曰禹餘糧。
It had Changzhou Marsh, where King Bi of Wu kept his great granary. The county had many moose. The Bowu ji says, “They gather in herds of thousands, dig up and eat grass roots, and the places where they do so become mud, called moose furrows. The people follow these furrows to plant rice, and without plowing they harvest it, with yields one hundredfold.” On Fuhai Island there was also a grass called shi; its seed was eaten like barley, ripened from the seventh month, and was gathered by the people until winter ended. It was called natural grain, or Yu’s surplus grain.