River of Forgetting
A remembered river with a changing name.
Wangchuan and the older Nai River
Modern Chinese fantasy often calls the underworld river Wangchuan, the River of Forgetting, and places Granny Meng beside its bridge. Earlier narratives more clearly attest the name Nai River. Zhang Du's Xuanshi Zhi describes a foul, bloody stream in a journey among the dead; Dunhuang Mulian narratives and later fiction develop the dangerous crossing.
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The familiar combination of Wangchuan, Naihe Bridge, memory-erasing soup, and romantic promises is a layered popular setting. The collected material does not establish Wangchuan as the standard river name in early Chinese sources. A possible association with translations of the Greek Lethe should not be treated as a proven direct origin. Nai River traditions also intersect with a real river near Mount Tai. The atlas therefore distinguishes older textual names, local geography, and the imaginative vocabulary of later literature and games.
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