In Zuo Zhuan's Four Years of "xianggong", Confucius wrote: "Living in a land of poor rocks, the dome is the country name." "Poverty" is a simplified word for "dome", which is actually a word for bow and arrow. Its leader's name is Yi. Before Shang Dynasty, tribal leaders all took Hou as their title, so they had the title of poor family. Hou Yi once visited the capital of Xia State and captured it, calling Taikang a lost country.
About this barren rock land, according to historical records, there are roughly the following statements:
1. Today, the west of mengzhou city is a poor valley. In the Golden Road: "There is a poor valley in Heyang, and the poor families move here";
Second, the history of the name of the road in the southwest of Huoqiu County, Anhui Province: "There are poor valleys and water in this life, that is, poor stones";
3. Water Classic Note and River Note in southern Dezhou, Shandong Province: The river flows through the west of the ancient city of Pingyi County in the west, "so there are poor countries." Or doubt that Zhu's word "post-poverty" is a mistake of "a gentleman" does not mean that there are poor countries;
Fourth, Shandan County, Gansu Province. Gai's "Huai Nan Zi Bo Xing Xun" said that "weak water leads to poor rock mountains", which seems too far away.
According to historical legend, Houyi is good at shooting, which is the advantage of Dongyi. In Shang Dynasty, Dongyi generally referred to Shandong, Anhui and northern Jiangsu, but logically Gansu (Taixi) and Henan (Taizhong) should be excluded. The remaining two places, Huoqiu County, Anhui Province and Dezhou, Shandong Province, tend to be near Dezhou, Shandong Province.