Legend says a phoenix sang on Mount Qi before the Zhou rose to power.
Tips
mistakes
岐 has the mountain radical 山. Don't write 歧 'forked', as in 歧路 'a fork in the road'.
history
The Zhou people settled on the plain at its foot, the 周原, before they overthrew the Shang. The phoenix story gave the idiom 凤鸣岐山, an omen that a wise ruler is about to rise.
