Tale of King Mu, Son of Heaven

He determined to visit the Western heavenly paradise of the Queen Mother of the West on the Mount Kunlun and taste her Peaches of Immortality.

: 136  The implications of the poems seem to cast the Queen Mother of the West as a vassal whom King Mu confirms in ruling her own land.

[4]: 19 Chapter 6 mainly recounts the death of King Mu's favorite consort, Cheng Ji, with details of her funeral with a huge entourage which takes eight days to arrive at her burial site.

Heartbroken, King Mu tarries there, fishing, hunting, until a soldier chides and admonishes him into returning his attention to government and slowly traveling back to his capital.

During the Qing dynasty (1644-1912), the text was revisited by Tan Cui 檀萃, Hong Yixuan 洪頤煊 and Zhai Yunsheng 翟雲升.