Draft:Yuquan (mythology)



Yuquan (Chinese: 虞泉; pinyin: yúquān), also known as Yuyuan (Chinese: 虞渊; pinyin: yúyuān), is a place in Chinese mythology where the sun rests.

Yuyuan first appears in Huainanzi, a collection of essays to help the Prince Liu an govern, as the name of the last stop of the solar chariot driven by Xihe. There, the sun rests until dawn. "When the sun reaches Yuyuan, is called twilight.".[1]

According to Hanshu, Yuyuan is in a sea in the Southern extremities and borders the world of evil. Jinshu wrote "Can I not climb to the sea and restrain the east-flowing water, and visit Yuquan and invoke the day of returning to the west?

  1. ^ Major, John S.; Queen, Sarah A.; Meyer, Andrew Seth; Roth, Harold D. (2010). The Huainanzi. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-52085-0.

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