korea 191Silks
1085: brocade.
1132 : 200 bolts of silk gauze.
Other
929: unspecified textiles.
983: mats, bedding.
1019: mats.
1030: mats.
Garments
959: robes.
983: brocade garments.
1019: brocade garments.
Texts959: four different editions of the Classic of Filial Piety.
1092: the Huang-ti hsien-ching.
The Chinese offered in return garments, golden belts, silken fabrics,
cotton, gold, silver, and porcelain vessels, gold foil, armour, horse
trappings, hairpins, Buddhist sutras, the Wen-yüan ying-hua, the Ts’e-fu
yüan-kuei, and perhaps also the dynastic histories, and books on penal
law, geomancy, and geography.
The value of the goods brought by foreign missions to the imperial
courts was assessed immediately, obviously so that appropriate return
offerings or payments could be made through the missions to their
own courts. There is no case on record for the Five Dynasties or Sung,
but there is one for Chin. On Feb.5, 1177, the high officials of Chin
presented a memorial to Emperor Shih-tsung, stating that the jade
belt which the Koryo envoys had presented on the New Year’s Day
was only stone resembling jade, and requested an inquiry. Shih-tsung
replied that there were no experts in a small state like Koryo, and that
he considered this an honest mistake (Chin shih 7:10b-11a). The belt
had been presented on Feb.1, so that only four days had elapsed.