Chalice Peak stands solitary, towering a thousand ren, its three peaks resembling tall-stemmed chalice. Ancie…
Chalice Peak stands solitary, towering a thousand ren, its three peaks resembling tall-stemmed chalice.
Ancient records mention a drunken beast in the mountains, shaped like a boar, with ox-like horns, and a cry like an infant's wail. Eating its flesh cured drunkenness. Yet since Emperor Wu of Han opened the Western Regions, grapes and alfalfa were planted all over the mountain's shade, and the drunken beast vanished, leaving only empty goblets facing the moon.
An old man at the mountain's foot sang, "Chalices hold no grain, only clouds and light. Drink dry the moon of Hexi, exhale it as Qilian frost."