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Zhou Dynasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (951 words) |
 | In the Chinese historical tradition, the rulers of the Zhou displaced the Yin and legitimized their rule by invoking the Mandate of Heaven, the notion that the ruler (the "son of heaven") governed by divine right but that his dethronement would prove that he had lost the mandate. |
| The Zhou dynasty was founded by the Ji family and had its capital at Hao (near the present-day city of Xi'an). |
| In Chinese Marxist histories, the Zhou dynasty marks the beginning of the feudal phase of Chinese history, a period which is said to extend to the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911. |
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