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Jiang Yan and Hou Ji

author:Wanzhong Mountain

She was the daughter of the Yandi tribe and the concubine of Emperor Zhao, one of the Five Emperors. One day when I went out to play, I saw a series of huge footprints, so I stepped on it, so I became pregnant, gave birth to a boy for a whole year, thought it was unlucky, and discarded it in a remote alley, and the cattle and sheep saw it and took a detour; the second was thrown at the dense forest, just when someone cut down a tree to settle down; and then threw it on the ice surface of a pool, and a flock of birds flew from the air and cushioned the child with wings. Jiang Yan took it as a miracle and hugged it back and raised it all the time. This baby is Hou Ji, and because of the abandonment, it is called abandonment. The Book of Poetry• Daya and The People of Life records Hou Ji's suffering and life. Guangxu's "Wenxi County Chronicle" records: "There are ice pools in the thirty-fifth northwest of Yi, which were abandoned by the generations, and the cold ice placed by Shiyun was also." Chidong is the tomb of Jiang Yuan, and there are dozens of acres of desolate ridges behind the mountain, which is the tomb of the Youxiao clan. "Shunfeng has a clan to a donkey, that is, to smell joy. Zhou's ancestor Ji was born in Wenxi, and his mother was Wenxiren.

Regarding the history of Hou ji, when Jin Du pre-annotated the Zuo Zhuan, he believed that "Ji" was the place of Wen Xi at that time. Qian Mu believed that the area around jiwang mountain in jinnan today was undoubtedly the place where the ancestors of the Zhou people, Hou Ji, were the first to cultivate grain. Jishan County under jiwang mountain and Wenxi mountain, sui formerly known as "Gaoliang County", Sui Kai Emperor eighteen years (598), because the people under the Jiwang mountain sacrifice after the Ji activities are becoming more and more popular, so the mountain name as the name of the county.

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