Langya Mountain / 琅琊山

Langya Mountain / 琅琊山 appears in Qinji 122-2 as a sea-facing stop on 秦始皇’s 219 BCE eastern tour. After sacrificing to the 齐地八神, the emperor travels south, climbs Langya, remains there for more than three months, relocates 30,000 households below Langya Terrace, grants twelve years of household-tax relief, and erects a stone inscription praising Qin’s order.

The page’s role is narrow: Langya is where 帝国巡游政治剧场 becomes settlement policy and written public doctrine. The episode places it after 泰山 and before the 徐福 sea-search branch, so it bridges sacred geography, conquered-territory possession, inscription, and the turn toward maritime immortality.

Key Claims

• Langya extends Qin Shi Huang’s eastern tour from mountain sacrifice into coastal residence, migration, and inscription.
• Moving households below Langya Terrace makes the tour materially territorial rather than only symbolic.
• Tax remission frames forced or directed settlement as imperial favor while still serving Qin’s control of former Qi space.
• The inscription recorded there anchors 琅琊刻石政治纲领.

Connections

• 秦始皇 and 秦国 - ruler and empire staging the Langya stay.
• 齐国 and 齐地八神 - conquered eastern religious setting immediately before the Langya episode.
• Imperial Tour Political Theater / 帝国巡游政治剧场 - broader governing pattern for the tour.
• Langya Inscription Political Program / 琅琊刻石政治纲领 - political message associated with the site.
• 泰山, Fengshan Ritual Legitimacy / 封禅礼制合法性, 蓬莱, and 徐福 - preceding sacred-mountain and following sea-immortal branches.