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Timber pagoda of the Fogong Temple, 1056, Song dynasty; at Yingxian, Shanxi province, China.
During the Xi (Western) Zhou period (1046–771 BCE), the ancient fief of Jin was established in the area of modern Quwo, located east of Houma in the Fen River valley in the southwest of what is now the province of Shanxi.1