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According to Zhouli (Rites of Zhou), ‘There needs of a healthy and robust economy, but also the
to be six types of ritual jades for the worship of advancement in many areas, including agriculture,
the heaven, the earth, and the four directions. animal husbandry, textiles, metallurgy, architecture,
The bi for the worship of the heaven, cong for the astronomy, and geography. The city of Haojing was
earth, gui for the east, zhang for the south, hu for attacked and conquered by the Quanrong nomads,
the west, and huang for the north’. The Western forcing the court to move eastward to Chengzhou,
Zhou dynasty witnessed not only the development and thus ending the Western Zhou dynasty.