Xiang State, a small country on the second bank of the Huai River in the early Spring and Autumn Period, because the country was weak and small, and was destroyed by the Lu State in the early Spring and Autumn Period, so there are not many records.
There are two theories about the origin of Xiang Guo, one is the surname Ji, and the other is the surname Yao.
The surname Ji comes from the Song Dynasty Zheng Qiao's "Tongzhi":Or the country of the surname Ji. The old city is one mile northeast of Xiangcheng County, Chenzhou. It is destroyed by Qi, and the descendants take the country as their clan. Xiang Lu was eight years old and was taught by Confucius. Han Ci's surname is Liu, and Zhou's surname is Xin. Look out of Liaoxi
Or wordsIt means that Zheng Qiao is not sure that this statement is true, and there is no evidence to support the statement surnamed Ji.
Yao surname said,**In the "Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Geographical Names of China":Xiang, Zhou Guoming. The surname Yao, the viscount, died in Lu in the Spring and Autumn Period. ......The ancient city is in the northeast of present-day Xiangcheng County, Henan
Regarding the surname Yao, "Chinese" contains".Where the son of the Yellow Emperor twenty-five sects, the surname of fourteen people, for the twelve surnames, Ji, You, Qi, Ji, Teng, Zhen, Ren, Xun, Xi, Yao, Yi, Yi is also
The surname Yao came from the Yellow Emperor tribe in the west, and later moved east with the Yellow Emperor tribe and developed north to the "western Liaoning" area. After the battle of Zhuolu, the Yellow Emperor tribe defeated the Yandi tribe, the Yellow Emperor tribe developed to the south, and the surname Yao also moved south, running to today's Weihui City, Henan Province, the founding of the country, the "New Tang Dynasty Book" said: ".Sun Boyi, a descendant of the Yellow Emperor, was enshrined in Nanyan, given the surname Yao, and his place was also Yan County, East County, which was later changed to Ji
This part of the surname Yao also maintained friendly relations with the Zhou Department, "Zuo Biography" contains;“Yao, Jiren also, Houji's concubine alsoHoujiThat is, the ancestor of the Zhou Dynasty. The surname Ji and the surname Yao are both from the Yellow Emperor, and the two are relatives.
When the time came to the second generation of Shang, the surname Yao located in Weihui City was divided into a part, and this part went to the Huai River area and was establishedXiang Guo, did not go part or stay in the local area, becameNanyan Kingdom
There is only one record about Xiang Guo, which is contained in the "Spring and Autumn Period and the Seventeenth Year of the Duke of Xu": ".In the spring of seven out of ten, the Qi people and the Xu people attacked the Ying clan. Summer, extinction. In autumn, Mrs. Jiang will meet Qi Hou Yu Bian. In September, the public will meet itself
The seventeenth Duke of Lu was in 643 B.C., recorded in the "Zuo Chuan".Division extinguished. Huaizhihui, the affairs of the princes of the public, did not return and took the item. Qi people thought that they were begging, and they stopped the public. In autumn, the sound of Jiang is public, and it will be Qi Hou Yu Bian. In September, the public solstice. The book says: 'To the self-will. 'There are still things that are done by the princes, and they are kept secret
It is to the effect that in 644 B.C., Duke Xu, Marquis of Qi, Duke of Song, Marquis of Chen, Marquis of Wei, Bo Zheng, Nan Xu, Marquis of Xing, and Bo Cao met YuHuaiIn the second year, Lu Shi destroyed Xiang Guo by the way. Duke Qi Huan was very dissatisfied and detained Duke Lu and Duchess LuSound ginger(members of the Qi office) asked to see Qi Huan, and only then did he save her husband Lu Xugong.
Because the distance between Lu and Xiang was too far, it was impossible for Lu to occupy its territory, and the purpose of Qi Huan Gong to hold the "Huai Alliance" in his later years was to suppress Chu, but unfortunately in 643 BC, Qi Huan Gong died.
The vassal states of the Central Plains were headless, and the forces of the Southern Chu State went north again, successively destroying the Xi State, the United Kingdom, the Six Kingdoms, the Huang State, and the Song Xianggong's".The Battle of Hongshui"If you win, the Huaishui area will become the sphere of influence of the Chu State.
Xiang's family is a Chu general, sealed in Xiang, so the surname is Xiang.Especially one of the Xiang countries, because of the destruction of the Lu country, the Xiang country has no sacrificial family temple, has become a borderless land, the Chu country sent noble members to garrison the Xiang country, called the Xiang family, the descendants of this branch have a famous figure - Xiang Yu.
In addition, in Zheng Qiao's "Tongzhi" aboveXiang LuThat is, the descendants of Xiang Guo, have nothing to do with Xiang Yu, and Xiang Lu is a prodigy, who accepted Confucius as a student at the age of eight, and later generations respected Xiang Lu as a holy father.