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"Chang Han sent a messenger to visit Hsiang Yü and expressed the desire to discuss terms of peace.  Hsiang Yü called a conference of his military officers and said: 'Our food supply is short. I am inclined to accept his proposition! The military officers all said: 'Good.'   Hsiang Yü then appointed a meeting place at Yin-hsü, south of the Huan River....."
(Chapter VII, p. 12, Shih-chi, 1739 A.D. Ed.) [[superscript]]5[[/superscript]]
章邯使人見項羽，欲約。項羽召軍吏，謀曰：糧少，欲聽其約，軍吏皆曰：善。項羽乃與期洹水南殷虛上......(史記，卷七，十二頁).
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This event took place in 207 B.C., some 915 years after the fall of the Shang Dynasty(circa 1122 B.C.), and a little over one hundred years(circa 98 B.C.) before Ssu-ma Ch'ien put it on record. The original meaning of the character '[[虛]] hsu', according to Shuo-wen Chieh-tzu([[說文解字]]), is a big hillock or mound. It was also frequently used to denote the deserted capital of ancient empire. In this particular case, the latter meaning can not be mistaken. One might gather that in the time of Szu-ma Ch'ien and immediately preceding it, the ruined capital of the Yin Dynasty south of Huan Shui was a well known locality. It is quite possible that at that time there were still enough surface remains reminiscent of the splendor of the ancient metropolis. One thing, at any rate, can be definitely posited; the capital of the Yin Dynasty was once located south of the Huan River. Recent excavations have only served to confirm this tradition. This shows how important it is to find out what [[strikethrough]]do all[[/strikethrough]] the historical accounts relate about this place. 

However, conflicting records exist regarding the exact loca-[[tions]]

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[[footnote]] 5. Cf. the French translation of this passage by E. Chavannes in 'Les Memoires Historiques de Se-ma Ts'ien, Tome II, p. 272. In the notes, Chavannes locates Yin-hsu in Nei-huang; here, he was, no doubt, misled by the confusion of the Sung archaeologists who thought that this site could be no other place than Hsiang([[相]]), where He-t'an-chia([[河亶甲]]) found a new capital for his Dynasty. Of this more anon.