Nanshen and Dongshen
Xinyang is referred to as Shencheng, and the ancient is Dongshen; Nanyang is referred to as Wancheng, and the ancient is Nanshen. The Shen people originated from the Western Rong ethnic group, and later were Huahua, taking Jiang as their surname. Initially living between Gansu and Shaanxi, later moving to the area of Yan'an and Suide in northern Shaanxi, taking animal husbandry as a profession, and then moving into Pingyang (present-day Baojimei County, Shaanxi), with agriculture and animal husbandry as its industry, the country was founded in the late Shang Dynasty, known as Xishen in history. Xi Shen was friendly with Zhou at the beginning of Zhou Xing, and Da Jiang was the concubine of King Tai of Zhou and the grandmother of King Wen. King Wu li zhou, Jiang Taigong sealed Shen Yu Xie. "Shen Guo zhou was sealed in the Tang (River) and Bai River valleys at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, and the capital was established in Nanyang City, Bei Xie Di" (Ancient Chinese History, p. 87). During the reign of King Xuan of Zhou, Shen Bo was made the uncle of King Xuan, and was again enthroned, and was promoted from Bo Guo to Hou Guo, and the Zhou Dynasty built a new capital for him, also known as Xie Yi (present-day Nanyang City). This time, the sealing was very grand, and the special minister Yin Jifu composed a poem "Song Gao" (see the twenty-fifth part of the Book of Poetry Daya), and King Xuan personally went to Xishen's hometown of Meiyi to bid farewell, and played this daya poem when parting. After that, there was no more Xishen, and all the characters of the entire Xishen homeland were moved to Nanshen. However, Shen Hou still maintained close ties with the Xi Rong tribe, so that after King You of Zhou deposed Shen and after the crown prince, Shen Hou joined forces with the state of Jin and The Dog Rong to destroy Western Zhou, which shows that the power of the Shen state at that time was strong, and its control had reached parts of present-day Xinyang, and it is said that the princely city built by Shen Bo for Yi Usu was near the present-day Northern City of Yangcheng in Xinyang City. The State of Jiao was in Fangcheng County, Nanyang City, and Wei Zhao's note in the Chinese Zheng Yu: "缯, Shen Zhi and Guoye." "With the country is the meaning of neighboring countries, it can be seen that the Shen state in the Western Zhou Dynasty was in Nanyang. Confucius ruled the Spring and Autumn Period, with Shen Bo committing rebellion, so there was no shenguo incident, so the territory of Nanshen and Dongshen and the geographical location of Xieyi are still debated.
In the late Western Zhou Dynasty, Jingchu had already risen and began to continuously annex the States of Jianghan and Huainan, threatening the Central Plains. King Xuan of Zhou sealed Shen Guo in order to prevent Jing Chu from moving north. However, the wheel of history could not stop the Chu wind from gradually moving north, and the Chu state eventually destroyed Xishen, and the Shen people fled from Nanyang to Xinyang, established Nanshen, and hastily built a new capital city of Xieyi (perhaps rebuilt from the Prince City). "Xie Cheng is sixty miles northwest of Xinyang Prefecture, sealed by Zhou Shenbo" (Ming and Qing, "One Unification Chronicle"). It took King Chu Wu nearly a decade to destroy Xishen, from 698 BC to 691 BC. After the death of King Wu of Chu, King Wen of Chu destroyed Dongshen again in the second year of his reign (688 BC), and was known as the false Deng Vashen in history. After the fall of Dongshen, King Wen of Chu supported the puppet regime Of Shenhou, but some of the Shen people still retreated to the mountains to continue guerrilla warfare. In 684 BC, King Wen of Chu defeated the State of Cai, captured The Marquis of Cai, and when he returned to his division, he destroyed the State of Chu and took Lady Xi fei captive. At that time, Shen County and Xi County were established, and on the north bank of the Huai River in Xinyang, the military town of Negative Hancheng (now known as Chengyang City and Chu Wangcheng) was built, and its military history was called "The Division of Shenxi". Chu fought against the Jin and Wu dynasties with Shen Shi's division, and the famous battle was the Battle of Chengpu (in present-day Puyang, Henan Province). Confucius's last stop on his tour of the world was at the Negative Letter City, which was guarded by Ye Gong Shen Zhuliang and Zuo Sima Xu Zhen, and the famous allusion is "Ye Gong Asking Politics". But in fact, Ye Gong did not appreciate Confucius, so Confucius's protégés invented the story of "Ye Gong Good Dragon". Zuo Sima Xu's tomb once unearthed the first Chinese chime (see primary school textbook), and the "Dongfang Hong" music played by him was sent into space with China's first artificial satellite. After the Qin general Bai Qi burned down the capital of Ying, King Xiang of Chu made Chengyang City the capital of Lindu for three years, and later the Xinyang people called Chengyang City the City of Chu.
During the reign of King Chuping, due to the struggle for hegemony between Wu and Chu, in order to improve relations with the Central Plains, King Chuping released the dukes of chen, Cai, Xu, Hu, Shen, Dao, Fang, and Shen, who had been destroyed, to their homeland and allowed them to restore the country and move the capital (cai state moved from Shangcai to Xincai), which was actually still a puppet regime. In this way, Dongshen existed for more than a hundred years.