Dai (Spring and Autumn period)

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  1. During the medieval period, some writers claimed that the princes of Zhao climbed the east terrace of Mount Wutai, overlooking what is now Dai County in Shanxi, although the two territories were only erroneously conflated. [17]

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  5. Lost Book of Zhou "Explaiming the King's Gatherings" quote: "正北空同、大夏、莎車、姑他、旦略、豹胡、代翟、匈奴、樓煩、月氏、孅犁、其龍、東胡,請令以橐駝、白玉、野馬、騊駼、駃騠、良弓為獻。"
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  7. 1 2 Johnston (2017) , p.  170
  8. Wu (2017), p.  33.
  9. 1 2 Di Cosmo (2002) , p.  133.
  10. 1 2 Wu (2017) , p.  28–29.
  11. Wu (2004), p. 6.
  12. Keller & al. (2007), p. 16.
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  14. Wu (2004), pp. 11–12.
  15. 1 2 Nienhauser et al. (2010) , p.  8 ..
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  19. 1 2 Major & al. (2010) , p.  748.
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  26. Shanxi Tourism Bureau (2016) , s.v. "Dai County".

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Constituent States of the Zhou Kingdom. Dai lies in the central north area.