Because the information technology at that time was very backward, the ancients were basically at the level of slash-and-burn civilization. People's ideas are simple, and their names are strange. Many times they were named according to their own ideas at that time, so that friends in rural areas were called "dog eggs" and "iron pillars" Then, as a famous agricultural god, it was called "abandonment" at that time for some reason.

According to legend, the mother's name of Saturnalia is Jiang Yuan. Before giving up giving birth, Jiang Yuan prayed to the gods and wanted children. But one day, just because she was outside, she accidentally stepped on the huge footprints of the Emperor of Heaven, became pregnant and gave birth to what we call an abandoned child. In today's society, if you have a child without a husband, although the social civilization has improved and the concept is different from before, others will still have some bad views, not to mention ancient times, which are more profound. Therefore, Jiang Yuan thought it was a bad sign for this fatherless child, so she named it "Abandoned". At the same time, I don't want this child myself, so I will abandon it outside for the next three times.

However, this abandoned child is the child of the Emperor of Heaven. No matter where mother Jiang Yuan abandoned herself, there will always be nearby birds and animals to protect her. Jiang Yuan still couldn't throw it away, so she brought it back and simply raised it herself. From then on, we know that Hou Ji has always been the leader of Zhou people in Xia Dynasty.

This shows that ancient feudal society still believed in gods, and often attributed some things that could not be solved or explained to gods in order to pray for spiritual comfort.