On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c6.s6.2

v1.c6.s6.2

From the Life we learn that the local native name of this charming district, here called Ch'ien-Ch'uan (千泉), was Ping-yü (屏聿). This evidently represents Bing-ghyul which is the Turkic equivalent for Ch'ien-ch'uan or "Thousand Springs". There is little mention of the district bearing this name in Chinese literature. We find it stated in the history of the Sui dynasty that in the year A. D. 619 the She-hu khan of the West Turks removed his Court to the Thousand Springs, described as being to the north of the Shih (石), that is, Tashkend country.¹ Moreover in the XIIth chuan of these Records we are told that the Ts'ung-Ling range 'extended on the north to the Hot sea (the Issik-kül) and Thousand Springs'.