The Western Zhou Dynasty established two capitals, Zongzhou 宗周 or Hao 鎬, and Chengzhou æˆå‘¨ or Luo é›’. But the rulers stayed in the western regions where their people had lived for some centuries after coming from Bin è±³ (or é‚ ), a territory (in green) that was either located in the Fen River valley or in the west. The older capitals of the Zhou tribe were Qi å² and Feng è±.
The main feudal states (zhuhou 諸侯) of the Western Zhou period are held in smaller bold letters. We find the many smaller states in the Yellow River plain, states like Zheng é„, Cao 曹, Song 宋 (the descendants of the House of Shang), Chen 陳, Cai 蔡, and Wei ("Wey") è¡›, we have the traditionally highly esteemed state of Lu é¯(descendants of the Duke of Zhou) in the east; and finally we find the peripheral states of Yan 燕, Qi 齊 and Jin 晉 that were able to develop a larger territory than the others. The states of Qin 秦, Chu 楚, Wu å³, and Yue 越 (in brackets) were still not enfeoffed as vassals of Zhou, they are rather seen as semi-barbarious tribes. The territories of the Shu 蜀 and Ba å·´ in modern Sichuan have their own ways of culture that are different of the "genuine" Chinese culture in the Yellow River basin.
Except these main states, we find dozens or hundreds of small vassal states (written in small black letters). They play no political role at that time, and most of them vanished during the wars of Eastern Zhou period. Some more of them can be found as states named in the Book of Songs, namely Shao å¬, Bei 邶, Yong 鄘, Wei é, Tang å”, Gui 檜 (here only the states not yet mentioned above). Important vassals of the founding time of Western Zhou were 管å”é®® Shu Xian, Ruler of Guan; æˆå”æ¦ Shu Wu, Ruler of Cheng; éœå”處 Shu Chu, Ruler of Huo; æžæ±æ¨“å…¬ Donglou, Duke of Qi ("Qy"), a descendant of the House of Xia; 畢公高 Gao, Duke of Bi. Some of the smaller states should play an important role at the begin of the Warring States period, like Han 韓 ("Hann") and Wei é.
Around this center of culturally advanced states we find lots of Non-Chinese "barbarian" tribes and peoples, namely the Quanrong 犬戎 or Xianyun çŽç‹ in the west, the Huaiyi 淮夷 or Xu å¾ and Yue 越 in the east, Di in the north ç‹„, and Pu æ¿®, Qiang 羌 and Man è » in the southwest and south.
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