The Song dynasty leishu encyclopedia Taiping Yulan quotes a Han dynasty source, the San Qinji (三秦記), and provides a legend about the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, encountering the goddess at Mount Li. At the time of the First Emperor, there was a crossway of eighty li to Mount Li. People walked over the bridge, carts drove under the bridge. The pillars of metal and stone can still be seen. In the west, there are hot springs, and it is said that Qin Shi Huang played a divine woman there. As he was ill-mannered, the goddess spat at him, and an ulcer grew on that place. Struck by terror the First Emperor apologized, and the divine woman made a hot spring appear, which cured his illness. Because of that, later generations use to bath there.