Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Chu (Chinese: 楚, old *Sraʻ, pinyin Chǔ; also 楚國 or 楚国, Chǔguó) was an ancient Chinese state in the Yangtze valley during the Zhou Dynasty. Originally Chu was considered a viscounty but, starting from King Wu in the early 8th century BC, the rulers of Chu declared themselves kings on an equal footing with the Zhou rulers. Originally known as Jing (荆) and then as Jingchu (荆楚), Chu occupied vast areas of land at its height, including most of the present-day provinces of Hubei and Hunan, along with parts of Chongqing, Guizhou, Henan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai. For more than 400 years, the Chu capital Danyang was located at the junction region of Dan and Xi rivers near present-day Xichuan in Henan but it was then moved to Ying. The ruling house of Chu originally bore the ancestral name Nai (嬭) and clan name Yan (酓) but these later became Mi (芈) and Xiong (熊) respectively.. }
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- Chu_(state) abstract "Chu (Chinese: 楚, old *Sraʻ, pinyin Chǔ; also 楚國 or 楚国, Chǔguó) was an ancient Chinese state in the Yangtze valley during the Zhou Dynasty. Originally Chu was considered a viscounty but, starting from King Wu in the early 8th century BC, the rulers of Chu declared themselves kings on an equal footing with the Zhou rulers. Originally known as Jing (荆) and then as Jingchu (荆楚), Chu occupied vast areas of land at its height, including most of the present-day provinces of Hubei and Hunan, along with parts of Chongqing, Guizhou, Henan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai. For more than 400 years, the Chu capital Danyang was located at the junction region of Dan and Xi rivers near present-day Xichuan in Henan but it was then moved to Ying. The ruling house of Chu originally bore the ancestral name Nai (嬭) and clan name Yan (酓) but these later became Mi (芈) and Xiong (熊) respectively.".