Haojing
| Hao | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 鎬 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 镐 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | Bright | ||||||||
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| Haojing | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 鎬京 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 镐京 | ||||||||
| Postal | Haoking | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | Bright Capital | ||||||||
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| Zongzhou | |||||||||
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| Chinese | 宗周 | ||||||||
| Postal | Tsungchow | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | Ancestral Zhou | ||||||||
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Hao or Haojing, also called Zongzhou, was one of the two settlements comprising the capital of the Western Zhou dynasty (c. 1046 – c. 771 BCE), the other being Feng or Fengjing (豐京). They stood on opposite banks of the Feng River (灃河), Feng on the west bank and Hao on the east, and were together known as Fenghao. Archaeological discoveries indicate that the ruins of Haojing lie next to the Feng River around the north end of Doumen Subdistrict (斗门街道) in present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi Province.