Portrait of Chen Hugong
Chen Hugong (陈胡公), whose original surname was 妫, was named Man (manchu), and the character Shaotang (少唐), the first monarch of the State of Chen, was posthumously known as "Hu" (胡), so he was called "Hu Gong".
After Chen Hu became a concubine of Yu Shun, she was of high moral character and only then did she know that her father Fu Fu (阏父) was favored by King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou, and in several ways he was enfeoffed by King Wu of Zhou in Chen Di to worship Emperor Shun, and married his eldest daughter Tai ji to him.
Map of the territory of the Chen Kingdom
Chen Hugong was a powerful monarch, he built the capital Wanqiu (Three Miles East of The County, Zhunyang County, Henan Province), repaired Chen City, prospered Hundred Industries, and educated the people with Zhou rites, and Chen Guo became a state of etiquette. During the reign of Duke Hu, he made great efforts to govern and selected talents and talents, laying a good foundation for the State of Chen, making the State of Chen one of the twelve princely states in the early Spring and Autumn Period.
Chen Hu Cemetery in Huaiyang, Henan
After Hu Gong's death, he was buried on the shore of Nantan Lake on the shore of Liuhu Lake (southeast of Longhu Lake in Huaiyang). Because the tomb was often flooded, posterity called it "Iron Tomb" with iron seals. The predecessors have the Shi Daohu Cemetery:
It is rumored that in the iron tomb Willow Lake, the smoke is full of old traces.
A thousand years of hidden rocks, a flood of immersion in the hall.
(Excerpt from the 202o year of the renewal of the "Horiba Chronicle")