Daxia, or Ta-Hia, Ta-Hsia (Chinese: 大夏; Pinyin: Dàxià) is the name given in antiquity by the Chinese to the territory of Bactria. The name Ta-Hia appears in Chinese from the 3rd century BCE to designate a mythical kingdom to the West, possibly a consequence of the first contacts with the expansion of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, and then is used by the explorer Zhang Qian in 126 BCE to designate Bactria. The reports of Zhang Qian were put in writing in Shiji ("Records… (More on Daxia)