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The Duke
Gong (title)

Gong was the highest title of Chinese nobles during Zhou Dynasty and the second highest title, ranked below Chinese nobility#Wang and Huangdi , from Han Dynasty onwards. Gong is usually translated as Duke....
 of Zhou (; Wade-Giles
Wade-Giles

Wade-Giles , sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization system for the Mandarin Chinese language used in Beijing. It developed from a system produced by Thomas Francis Wade in the mid-19th century, and reached settled form with Herbert Giles' Chinese language-English language dictionary of 1892....
: Chou Kung) was the brother of King Wu of Zhou
King Wu of Zhou

King Wu of Zhou or King Wu of Chou was the first sovereign, or ruler of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty. Various sources quoted that he died at the age of 93, 54 or 43....
 in ancient China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
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Names
Chinese name

Personal names in Culture of China follow a number of conventions different from those of personal names in Western cultures. Most noticeably, a Chinese name is written with the family name first and the given name next, therefore "John Smith" as a Chinese name would be "Smith John"....
Ancestral name
Chinese name

Personal names in Culture of China follow a number of conventions different from those of personal names in Western cultures. Most noticeably, a Chinese name is written with the family name first and the given name next, therefore "John Smith" as a Chinese name would be "Smith John"....
:		Ji
Ji (surname)

Ji is the family name of the family in control of the Zhou Dynasty , which followed the Shang Dynasty and preceded the Qin Dynasty in China....
Given name
Chinese given name

Chinese given names are often made up of one or two Chinese written languages. Chinese names can consist of any character and contain almost any meaning....
:		Dan
Courtesy name:Unknown
Posthumous name
Posthumous name

A posthumous name is an honorary name given to royalty, nobles, and sometimes others, in some cultures after the person's death. The posthumous name is commonly used when naming royalty of Table of Chinese monarchs, List of Korean monarchs, Vietnam and emperors of Japan....
:		Wen
Styled:Dan, the Duke of Zhou
The Duke
Gong (title)

Gong was the highest title of Chinese nobles during Zhou Dynasty and the second highest title, ranked below Chinese nobility#Wang and Huangdi , from Han Dynasty onwards. Gong is usually translated as Duke....
 of Zhou (; Wade-Giles
Wade-Giles

Wade-Giles , sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization system for the Mandarin Chinese language used in Beijing. It developed from a system produced by Thomas Francis Wade in the mid-19th century, and reached settled form with Herbert Giles' Chinese language-English language dictionary of 1892....
: Chou Kung) was the brother of King Wu of Zhou
King Wu of Zhou

King Wu of Zhou or King Wu of Chou was the first sovereign, or ruler of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty. Various sources quoted that he died at the age of 93, 54 or 43....
 in ancient China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
. Only three years after defeating the Shang Dynasty
Shang Dynasty

The Shang Dynasty or Yin Dynasty was according to traditional sources the first Dynasties in Chinese history. They ruled in the northeastern region of the area known as "China proper", in the Yellow River valley....
 King Wu died, leaving the task of consolidating the dynasty's power to the Duke of Zhou. Instead of assuming the throne himself, however, he served as regent for King Wu's son, taking care of him until he was old enough to rule. The Duke of Zhou fought with the rulers of eastern states who joined with the remnants of the Shang to oppose the Zhou. The east was conquered in five years.

According to Chinese legend, he annotated the 64 hexagrams
Hexagram (I Ching)

The I Ching book consists of 64 hexagrams.A hexagram is a figure composed of six stacked horizontal lines , where each line is either Yang , or Yin ....
 and completed the classic of I Ching
I Ching

The I Ching , or ?Y? Jing? ; also called Classic of Changes or Book of Changes is one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts....
, established the Rites of Zhou
Rites of Zhou

The Rites of Zhou also known as Zhouguan is one of three ancient ritual texts listed among the classics of Confucianism. It was later renamed to Zhouli by Liu Xin to disambiguate from a chapter under Classic of History known as Zhouguan....
, and created the Yayue
Yayue

Yayue is a form of China Chinese classical music that was performed at imperial courts. The basic conventions of yayue were established in the Zhou Dynasty....
 of Chinese classical music.

In 2004, Chinese archaeologists reported that they may have found the tomb complex of Zhou Gong in Qishan County, Shaanxi
Shaanxi

is a north-central political divisions of China of the People's Republic of China, and includes portions of the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River as well as the Qinling Mountains across the southern part of the province....
 Province.

God of Dreams


Duke of Zhou is also known as the 'God of Dreams'. It comes from a saying of Confucius: 'I no longer dream of the Duke of Zhou' (meaning: I do not have a dream about the Duke of Zhou's good governance). According to the folk legend, if an important thing is going to happen to someone, the Duke of Zhou will let the person know through dream. Hence the Chinese expression 'Dreaming of Zhou Gong' or 'Seeing Zhou Gong' (i.e. Mr. Zhou, ??) which means sleeping/dozing. Chinese teenagers also like to say 'Zhou Gong Online' (MMORPG
MMORPG

A massively multiplayer online role-playing game is a genre of computer role-playing games in which a large number of player interact with one another in a virtual world....
 of Zhou Gong) as a meaning of sleeping in class.

Zhou Gong's Book of Auspicious and Inauspicious Dreams


There is a book called 'Zhou Gong's Book of Auspicious and Inauspicious Dreams', which is about dreams in traditional Chinese culture. People use it to analyse the dreams in order to predict the future.

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