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乞伏國仁。鮮卑人。仕符秦。東晉武帝癸未太元八年七月。秦主堅攻晉。以國仁為前將軍。會國仁叔父步頹反於隴西。堅遣國仁還討之。國仁步頹共僭一方眾至十餘萬。甲申年國仁據金城（陝西鞏昌路蘭州也）。乙酉年建國號秦（西秦）。年曰建義。己丑年西秦武元王乾歸。年曰太初。晉安帝己酉義熙五年。西秦年曰更始。壬子年西秦主太祖熾盤。年曰永康。宋高祖永初元年。西秦年曰建始。至是元嘉五年纂末年曰永弘。為赫連夏所滅。四主合四十五年。

Qifu Guoren was a Xianbei. He served Fu Qin. In the seventh month of the guizwei year, the eighth year of Taiyuan of Emperor Wu of Eastern Jin, Jian, the ruler of Qin, attacked Jin, and appointed Guoren as Front General. It happened that Guoren's uncle Botui rebelled in Longxi, so Jian dispatched Guoren back to punish him. Guoren and Botui together usurped a region, their followers reaching more than one hundred thousand. In the jiashen year, Guoren occupied Jincheng (Lanzhou on the Gongchang circuit in Shaanxi). In the yiyou year, he established the state named Qin (Western Qin), and the reign year was called Jianyi. In the jichou year, King Wuyuan of Western Qin, Qiangui, had the reign year called Taichu. In the jiyou year, the fifth year of Yixi of Emperor An of Jin, the reign year of Western Qin was called Gengshi. In the renzi year, the Western Qin ruler Taizu Chipan had the reign year called Yongkang. In the first year of Yongchu of Gaozu of Song, the Western Qin reign year was called Jianshi. Reaching this fifth year of Yuanjia, Zuan's final year was called Yonghong, and it was destroyed by Helian Xia. The four rulers lasted a total of forty-five years.