《诗经·大雅·生民》是周人歌唱自己祖先的诗。学者陆侃如、冯沅君在《中国诗史》里，把《生民》等五首诗合称为「周的史诗」，《生民》就是其中的「后稷传」。西汉司马迁写《史记·周本纪》，也是从后稷讲起：他名叫弃，被封在邰，姓姬，是周朝的始祖。

Sheng Min, in the Greater Odes of the Book of Songs, is a poem in which the Zhou people sang of their own ancestor. The scholars Lu Kanru and Feng Yuanjun grouped it with four other poems as the epic of Zhou, calling Sheng Min the biography of Hou Ji. When Sima Qian of the Western Han wrote the Annals of Zhou in his Records of the Grand Historian, he also began with Hou Ji: his name was Qi, he was given the land of Tai, his family name was Ji, and he was the founding ancestor of the Zhou dynasty.

邰在今天陕西武功县西南一带。武功镇东门外的漆水河边有一座教稼台，相传是后稷教人种庄稼的地方；附近的杨凌如今是有名的「农科城」，教稼园里立着后稷的雕像。稷就是谷子，古人把土神叫「社」、谷神叫「稷」，「社稷」后来成了国家的代称。

Tai lay in the area southwest of present-day Wugong County in Shaanxi. Beside the Qishui River outside the east gate of Wugong Town stands the Jiaojia Terrace, said to be where Hou Ji taught people to farm. Nearby Yangling is now well known as a city of agricultural science, and a statue of Hou Ji stands in its Jiaojia Garden. Ji means millet. The ancients called the god of the soil She and the god of grain Ji, and sheji later came to mean the nation itself.

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