Other peoples were merely oddities, as with the people of Daqin, today thought to have been part of the Roman empire, that Zhang Qian visited when he traveled westward. Chinese writers turned them into strange beings "100 feet tall." They "possess miraculous customs, spit fire from their mouths, tie themselves into knots then untie themselves again, and can leap 12 wan."
像張騫通西域所到如今被認為羅馬的「大秦」百姓，到中國人的筆下，變成了身高「長十丈」，「俗多奇幻，口中吐火，自縛自解，跳十二丸」等的奇人。