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Late Shang and early Western Zhou bronze vessels inscribed with the name “Rong” are well attested,95 and a cluster has been discovered near Mt. Cang 蒼山 in southern Shandong.96 This does not mean that Rong in the Huayuanzhuang East divination accounts was here, but it does provide a conceivable starting point. The divinations about where to bury Wei in Table 4 (HYZ 195) suggest that Xiang 襄was not far from Rong, and based on Eastern Zhou geography Xiang might have been located in the area of modern day Puyang, Shandong.97 Ge 割 (葛) is another place with a possible southwest Shandong connection.98 Bronzes inscribed with this name were discovered in a late Shang-early Western Zhou cemetery in Yanzhou, Shandong.99 Even though the evidence presented above suggests that Rong and a couple other places might have been located in the east, that is, east of Anyang in Shan- dong province, there is just as much evidence, if not more, that Rong was in fact in Henan province, to the west of Anyang, and in the area of Wenxian 溫縣, Qinyang 沁陽, and Xiuwu 修武. A starting point is the place called Qin , which almost certainly is to be associated with the Qin River 沁水.100 Secondly, are the numerous divinations and notations concerning war with Shao 召.101 The Shao territory was located west of Shang and in the area between Jiyuan, Henan 河南 濟源 and Yuanqu, Shanxi 山西垣曲.102 Thirdly, there are many references to the main character at a place called You 柚 (=Xun 鄩), which according to Eastern 95 Yin-Zhou jinwen jicheng shiwen 4: 380. 96 Li Xueqin 1999. The bronzes Li refers to are inscribed (Rong 戎) and not , which is the only way this place in the Huayuanzhuang East records was ever written. Li suggests the two graphs were variants and I agree with him, although both graphs do occur in the Huayuanzhuang East divinations. occurs once and means “warrior” (HYZ 38); most frequently occurs as a place name, but it also occurs once as a verb and presumably meant to strike or battle (HYZ 116). Obviously we have to allow for the possibility that these two graphs wrote different words, and this would then mean that bronzes inscribed are not related at all to the place , and that did not write the word rong 戎. We also have to allow for the possibility that inscribed on bronzes was not, in every instance, a name but meant something else, like “warrior”. 97 Yu Xingwu 1979: 133. 98 See GuLin bubian #3182: 783-785 and the commentary to HYZ 252 for the reading of Ge. 99 Li Xueqin 1998: 91. 100 The area spans between Qinyang city 沁陽市in northwestern Henan, and Qinyang county 沁陽縣in southwestern Shanxi. HYZ 85 records a divination about plans to build a tower here. 101 See Table 2; HYZ 429, HYZ 403.3, HYZ 247.8-9, and HYZ 262.2. 102 Shirakawa Shizuka 1955; Lin and Sun 2010: 93. 50 | Part II: People Zhou sources was located not far from Wenxian,103 in addition to him being at several other places in southwestern Shanxi, most notably Tang 唐.104 HYZ 36 rec- ords “entering Shang” and “being at You 柚”, and this not only implies the two places were close in distance, but also suggests that a western border of Shang was in the vicinity of Wenxian.105 Although a more detailed study is needed, I take the position here that Rong was to the west of Anyang and in this general area.