The Western Zhou Dynasty originated from a small state located to the west of the Shang kingdom. Zhou was situated on the plains south of Mt. Qishan in Shaanxi. Their leader was called the fangbo earl of Zhou by the Shang people; the Zhou people, meanwhile, called the Shang dayi (“the great capital of Shang”) and themselves the “small state.” Zhou-Dynasty ancestor Gongliu had moved from the lands of the Rong and Di peoples to a place called Bin (present-day Binzhou City, Shaanxi), which was a critical step in the Zhou people’s gradual movement into the Central Plains. King Tai (also known as Gugong Danfu) of the Zhou clan moved his people again to the plains on the southern side of Mt. Qishan, changing the nomadic lifestyle that they acquired from the Rong and Di peoples, building a city where they established a bureaucratic system and greatly developing their culture.