State of Lü 吕/呂 | |||||||||
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Capital | West of Nanyang, Henan | ||||||||
Religion | Chinese folk religion, ancestor worship, Taoism | ||||||||
Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
Currency | Chinese coin | ||||||||
ISO 3166 code | LU | ||||||||
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Lü ( simplified Chinese: 吕; traditional Chinese: 呂; pinyin: Lǚ) was a Zhou dynasty vassal state in present-day central China in the early years of the Spring and Autumn period (722–481 BC).
As the rulers of the four states of Qi, Xu, Shen and Lü all had the surname Jiang (姜), they claimed a common ancestry. [1]