Meanwhile, the Chinese Soh, imported from Tang during the Nara period, is believed to have been created in the era of Qin (around the third century B.C) by a person called Moten, but it is nothing but a legend.
一方、後述の奈良時代に唐より伝わることになる中国の箏の起こりは、秦の時代（紀元前3世紀頃）に蒙恬（もうてん）という人物が作ったのが始まりとされるが、伝説に過ぎない。