The Zhou initially moved their capital west to an area near modern Xi ' an, on the Wei River, a tributary of the Yellow River, but they would preside over a series of expansions into the Yangtze River valley.

In around 500 BCE, after the Zhou state weakened and China moved into the Spring and Autumn Period, the classic period of Chinese philosophy began ( it is an interesting fact that this date nearly coincides with the emergence of the first Greek philosophers ).

According to Chinese legend, the Zhou lineage began with Emperor Ku and proceeded from him to Qi, Buku, Ju, and then Gongliu, before Gugong Danfu moved the Zhou clan from Bin ( 豳 or 邠 ) to an area in the Wei River valley, where they founded a town that became central to the Zhou clan's growing prosperity.

Jili's son, King Wen of Zhou, moved the Zhou capital downstream to Fenghao.

To move up the ladder in civil service, the men in these families often had to get transferred, and in the late years of the Qing dynasty, Zhou Enlai's branch of the family moved to Huai ' an.

Zhou was apparently not one of the occupying students and remained in France until February or March 1922, when he moved with Zhang and Liu from Paris to Berlin.

In his memoirs, Nie Rongzhen suggested that the gunboat had moved in protest of Zhou Enlai's ( brief ) arrest.

The Duke also moved the Nine Tripod Cauldrons to Chengzhou from the Zhou Dynasty capital at Haojing.

The Eastern Zhou Dynasty capital was moved to Chengzhou in 510 BCE.

After the Zhou capital was sacked by the Marquess of Shen and the Quanrong barbarians, the Zhou moved the capital east from the now desolated Zongzhou in Haojing near modern Xi ' an to Chengzhou in the Yellow River Valley.

Lu Su succeeded Zhou Yu as the Grand Viceroy of Sun Quan's armies and moved the headquarters to Lukou ( 陸口 ), yielding all commanderies of Jing Province ( except Jiangxia commandery ) and access to the Yi Province to Liu Bei.

As the national capital Haojing had suffered severe damage, and was located near the potentially dangerous Quanrong, in 771 BC, King Ping of Zhou moved the capital eastward to Luoyi, thus beginning the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and ushering in the Spring and Autumn Period which would last for more than 300 years.

King Ping of Zhou moved the Zhou Dynasty east from Haojing to Luoyi, thus ending the Western Zhou and beginning the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period.

Some time during the 7th Century B. C., in the late Western Zhou or early Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the State of Yan absorbed the State of Ji, a smaller kingdom to the north and moved its capital from Liulihe to that of Ji, in modern-day, Xicheng District of Beijing.

When Zhou Yu died of illness in 210, Lu Su succeeded him as commander of Sun Quan's military forces and moved his headquarters to Lukou ( 陸口 ), yielding to Liu Bei all commanderies in Jing Province ( except Jiangxia ).

At the Sixth Congress, Zhou delivered a long speech insisting that conditions in China were not favorable for immediate revolution, and that the main task of the CCP should be to develop revolutionary momentum by winning over the support of the masses in the countryside and establishing a Soviet regime in southern China, similar to the one that Mao Zedong and Zhu De were already establishing around Jiangxi.

Zhou did not openly break with these more orthodox notions, and even tried to implement them later, in 1931, in Jiangxi.

After establishing a new Politburo Standing Committee in Shanghai, Zhou and his wife relocated to the Communist base in Jiangxi near the end of 1931.

Even before moving to Jiangxi, Zhou had become involved in the politics of these bases.

Although he had supported the elimination of counterrevolutionaries, Zhou actively suppressed the campaign when he arrived in Jiangxi in December 1931, criticizing the " excess, the panic, and the oversimplification " practiced by local officials.

After moving to Jiangxi, Zhou met Mao for the first time since 1927, and began his long relationship with Mao as Mao's superior.

In July 2007, archeologists discovered intricately woven and dyed silk textiles in a tomb in Jiangxi province, dated to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty roughly 2, 500 years ago.

Although the de facto leader of the party at the time, Zhou Enlai, originally supported Mao's purges as necessary to eliminate KMT spies, after he arrived in Jiangxi in December 1931 Zhou criticized Mao's campaigns for being directed more against anti-Maoists than legitimate threats to the Party, for the campaign's general senselessness, and for the widespread use of torture to extract confessions.

In 291 AD, during the Western Jin Dynasty, Jiangxi became its own Zhou called Jiangzhou ( 江州, Gan: Kong-chiu ).

When Zhou left Shanghai for the Communist base in Jiangxi Province in August 1931, he left Kang in charge of the Special Work Committee, a position he held for two years.

In 1933 Bo Gu and other members of the Central Bureau such as Zhou Enlai had to evacuate to Soviet Territory, which was the power base set up by CPC, in the countryside, in Jiangxi.

Under the direction of Mao and Zhou, the Red Army finally arrived at the remote Communist base of Yan ' an, Shaanxi, in December 1936.

Other veterans who joined the new base included Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai and Chen Yi.

Zhou accused Gao first of setting up an ' independent kingdom ', a reference to Gao's power base in Manchuria ; and second of having ' mixed up right and wrong in Soviet relations ', a hint at Gao's alleged close ties to the USSR ; and finally of ' fabricating Comrade Mao Zedong's words ', as Gao had told others that his plans had Mao's support.

During the rule of King Xiao of Zhou, the eighth king of the Zhou Dynasty, this area became known as the state of Qin.

To the south, the weaker state of Han held the east-west part of the Yellow River valley, surrounded the Zhou royal domain at Luoyang and held an area north of Luoyang called Shangdang.

Although the archaeological record shows clearly that multiple cultures and kingdoms existed in the area that was to become China, Chinese archaeologists continue to date all Bronze Age sites to the Xia, Shang or Zhou, implying that the territory controlled today belonged to the ancestors of the current Chinese state.

2500 years ago in the late Zhou Dynasty, local tribes who named themselves Gou Wu () lived in the area which would become the modern city of Suzhou.

Zhou Tai was a native of Jiujiang Commandery, and was depicted as a pirate around the area in Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but it is hard to tell if he really practiced piracy because historic records only suggest he was of an obscure origin.

Zhou Yu was involved in the first half of Sun Ce's campaign to unify Yang Province, wherein the focus was to defeat the warlords in the area.

Along with Zhu Ran, Xu deliberately expressed displeasure to work with and under general Zhou Tai, who came from a lower origin but was assigned as the area commander.

During the battle of Ruxu, Zhou Tai was appointed by Sun Quan to be the area commander, Xu Sheng and Zhu Ran were both under Zhou's command.

In August 1977, a large hoard of several thousand pieces was discovered in an area closely related to the heartland of the ancient Zhou.

The most credible one states that the surname Xu originated from the feudal state of Xu ( 许 ) ( the area of Xuchang ( 许昌 ) in present day Henan ) during the Zhou Dynasty.

During the Zhou Dynasty, the Wu and Baiyue peoples inhabited the area with heavy aquaculture and stilt houses, but became increasingly sinicized through contact with northern Chinese states.

From this data ( incorporating the Earth's albedo and the fact that the solar absorption cross-section is 1 / 4 of the surface area of the Earth ), Tung, Zhou and Camp ( 2008 ) derive a transient sensitivity value of 0. 69 to 0. 97 ° C /( W / m < sup > 2 </ sup >).

A separate traditional script has been developed in Mengding Township 勐定镇, Lincang 临沧, and is different from the one used in the Dehong area — see Zhou ( 2001: 371 ).

Many believe that Zhou is merely a puppet, and the local officers pursuing funds from the central government in the name of tiger research and preservation, as well as tourists ' interest to the area are the real thread pullers.

Lu Junyi orders Deng, Ou Peng, Li Zhong and Zhou Tong to scout the area around the pass.

The Chinese diplomat Zhou Daguan, who visited Angkor at the end of the 13th Century, wrote that the East Mebon, the temple at the center of the East Baray, another large reservoir in the Angkor area, had a large image of Buddha with water spurting from its navel.

Since the Zhou Dynasty, the area was the capital region of China for a total of 12 dynasties including the Former Han Dynasty, Sui Dynasty, and Tang Dynasty.

* The family name Gŭ ( 谷, meaning valley ), came about when a noble family of the Zhou Dynasty was rewarded a fief in a valley area.