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In the time of Duke Mu of Qin, a man from Chencang was digging in the earth when he unearthed a creature that looked like a sheep yet was not a sheep, and like a pig yet was not a pig. He led it away to present it to Duke Mu. On the road he met two children, who said, “This creature is called an Ao. It lives underground and feeds on the brains of the dead. If you wish to kill it, drive a cypress stake into its head.” The Ao said, “Those two children are called Chen Bao. Whoever captures the male will become a king; whoever captures the female will become a hegemon.” The man from Chencang abandoned the Ao and chased the two children, who turned into pheasants and flew into a grove on level ground. The man reported this to Duke Mu, who sent out a great hunting party and indeed captured the female. It then turned into a stone. The stone was placed between the Qian and Wei rivers, and in the time of Duke Wen, a shrine was built for it, called the Chen Bao Shrine. The male flew to Nanyang. What is now Zhi County in Nanyang is the place where it alighted. Qin wished to commemorate this auspicious sign and so named the county Zhi, meaning “pheasant.” Whenever sacrifices were offered at the Chencang shrine, a red light more than ten zhang long would come from Zhi County and enter the shrine, accompanied by a deep, rumbling cry like that of a male pheasant. In later years, Guangwu rose to power from Nanyang.