法苑珠林 5.77

5.77

列子曰。從中州以東四十萬里得僬僥國。人長一尺五寸東北極有人。名竫人。長九寸秦始皇二十六年。有大人身長五丈。足跡六尺夷狄皆伏。有十二人現于臨洮。孔子曰。僬僥長三尺。短之至也。長者不過十。數之極也。今有五丈之人。此則無類而生也。是歲秦初兼六國。喜以為瑞。鑄金人十二以像之。南戍五嶺。北築長城。西徑臨洮東至遼東。徑數千里。故大人先見於臨洮。明禍亂所起也。後十二年而秦亡也（右此一十七驗各依本錄記也）。

The Liezi states: Four hundred thousand li east of the central province, one reaches the country of Jiaoyao, where the people are one foot and five inches tall. At the northeastern extreme there are people named Jing people, who are nine inches tall. In the twenty-sixth year of the First Emperor of Qin, there were giants five zhang tall with footprints of six chi; all the Yi and Di barbarians submitted. Twelve of them appeared in Lintao. Confucius said: 'The Jiaoyao are three chi tall, which is the limit of shortness; the tall do not exceed ten [chi], which is the limit of the numbers.' Now there were people of five zhang; these were born outside of the ordinary categories. That year, Qin had just annexed the six kingdoms and, delighting in this as an auspicious omen, cast twelve metal statues in their likeness. To the south they garrisoned the Five Ridges, and to the north they built the Great Wall, extending west to Lintao and east to Liaodong, spanning thousands of li. Thus, the giants first appeared in Lintao, making clear where the disaster and disorder would arise. Twelve years later, Qin fell. (The seventeen verifications above are each recorded according to their original sources.)