The Rise and Fall of the Zhou

Ji Feng Tai, Ji Zhao Zhou, descendants of Xia Hou, ancestors of the Western lands, same origin but different paths, ruling China separately. The Ji Zhou tribe originated from Hou Ji, who cultivated grains and initiated agriculture. After Bu Zhu lost his office, Gong Liu moved to Bin, and Gu Gong migrated to Qi, the tribe accumulated virtue over generations, gradually prospering, avoiding the bloodshed of Shang sacrifices, cultivating civil virtue, and dominating Western Qi. By the time of Xibo Chang, he accumulated goodness and won the hearts of the people; King Wu followed Heaven's will, triumphed at Muye, and ended Shang's rule. King Cheng established the capital, the Duke of Zhou created rites and music to pacify the realm, and implemented enfeoffment to strengthen the Zhou. Through the prosperity of Zhao and Mu, to the chaos of Li and Xuan, royal power declined, and the royal domain shrank. The beacon fires rose at Mount Li, the Quanrong entered the capital, King You perished, and the Western Zhou fell. From Hou Ji's founding at Tai to King You's death at Xi, the entire process of the Zhou clan's centuries of migration, hibernation, rise, establishment, and decline is recorded in this work. This book adopts the style of chronicle writing, narrating history with strict adherence to facts, without embellishment or fictional additions, using history as the backbone and text as the eyes, continuing the style of the pioneering chronicle work "The Shadow of Spies: The Legend of Nü Ai," to form a complete history of the Ji Zhou tribe and the Western Zhou dynasty, recording the rise and fall of the Qifeng region.