The Zhou Dynasty is divided into two periods: the Western Zhou Dynasty (BC 1046-BC 77 1 year) and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (BC 770-BC 256).

Zhou is an ancient tribe in Guanzhong, whose ancestors abandoned their names and planted them. During the reign of Yao and Shun, it was named "Hou Ji" and was named Taitai (now Wugong County and Yangling District of Shaanxi Province).

Gong Liu moved from Tai (now between Binxian and Xunyi counties) to Gugongfu, and moved again (now at the junction of Fufeng and Qishan counties) under the sun of Qishan.

Zhou people built cities, ruled fields, set officials and built the army here, and became a powerful vassal state in the middle reaches of Weihe River in the late Shang Dynasty. Ji Chang (King Wen) moved the capital to Feng (now Mawang Village, Chang 'an District).

Ji Chang died and his son Ji Fa succeeded him. He built Haojing (now Doumen Town, Fengdong New District) on the east bank of Fenghe River and wrote about Wang Xuye. BC 1046, after the Battle of Makino, the Shang Dynasty perished, which was called the Western Zhou Dynasty in history.

Early Zhou history

1, Shang Dynasty before Western Zhou Dynasty and Xia Dynasty still existing in literature. Xia and Shang Dynasties were the initial era of China's kingship, and Xia and Shang kings were only nominal masters. The political structure of the whole Chinese world is independent and divided. The reason why the Western Zhou Dynasty was able to wipe out the big city businessmen from the small countries in the west was closely related to this loose square system.

After the Western Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Shang Dynasty, it adopted the enfeoffment system based on the patriarchal clan system, and the whole territory was linked by the enfeoffment system. There are a series of complicated rights and obligations between vassal States and Zhou, which is unprecedented in history. Patriarchal clan system played a key role in consolidating the Zhou regime. As an economic link between the Zhou Emperor and the vassal states, the system is also conducive to the consolidation of imperial power.

2. In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Duke of Zhou gained and lost the old system of Xia and Shang, and formulated a whole set of rites and music system in the Western Zhou Dynasty, which must be observed from Tian Zi to Shu Ren. The system of rites and music is the cultural basis of the Zhou Dynasty's rule, and a kind of cultural knowledge has been formed above Shu Ren, which is undoubtedly conducive to strengthening the whole nation's recognition of the legitimacy of the Zhou Dynasty's rule.

3. In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Duke of Zhou built Luoyi to guard against the rebellion of the Yin stubborn people in the East, which is called Cheng Zhou. The construction of the Zhou Dynasty provided a buffer for the Zhou Dynasty. In the future, the dog army attacked Haojing, and the Zhou royal family was able to move eastward to Luoyi to continue to establish the country.