In ancient times, people ate raw food. Later, due to natural reasons such as lightning and wind, a natural fire was formed, and the seeds of trees and animals that had no time to escape were cooked. People choose to eat, find that cooked food is much more delicious than raw food, and slowly learn to roast food on the fire. There were no ready-made fire tools at that time. When people see thunder and electric shock and the forest is on fire, they try their best to put out the fire.
On one occasion, Di Ku took his son Gengbo out to inspect his subjects and came to a place where people still ate raw food, where most people were sickly. Di Ku sympathized with them and asked them why they didn't eat cooked food. People replied, "There is no fire". Di Ku asked, "why don't you look elsewhere? Attract fire, don't let it go out! " The people said to him, "I looked for it several times, sometimes because there was no firewood, and sometimes because there was a flood, it was all gone." Di Ku looked around, and sure enough, there were ashes put out by the flood. He couldn't help sighing, thinking: How can we find a way to keep the fire alive? After thinking for a while, he said to Kui Bo earnestly, "Look, it is a matter of life and death to help people here start a fire and manage it well. You are my most capable son, and I want you to do it, okay? " . Quiber is a obedient man, and he readily agreed. Since then, Kui Bo has become the "fire official" here, and this place has become a fief given to Kui Bo with the title of "Shang".
After Quiber was sealed here, he worked hard for the fire all day, too busy to eat and sleep well. First, he led the people to start a fire from a distance, tried to build a mound, put the fire on the mound, and built a bunker on it, so that the rain in the sky could not put out the fire, and the flood in the river could not put out the fire. Then, he personally led people everywhere to find firewood. Thanks to Wei Xiao's wisdom and hard work, the people of Shang can not only make fires everywhere, but also keep them burning for a long time. Everyone is grateful to Wei Xiao, saying that he is a fairy from heaven and has come to benefit the people.
After Quiber's death, people missed his merits, and with reverence, he was buried in the mound where the fire was stored before his death with the thickest funeral at that time. According to the custom at that time, everyone who mourned him should add a bag of loess in front of his grave. As a result, the mound is getting bigger and bigger. Because Kui Bo's country name is Shang, this mound has been called Shangqiu since then. After a long time, "Shangqiu" has become the place name here until now.