Chapter 9 looks at the legacy of the wending story in the classical tradition of historical China and the methodological implications for archaeological research. Through a process of ritualization, the wending narrative became the most resilient political rhetoric in the Chinese language, whereas the recollection of the layered past was present in any discourse of power, past or present. By expanding the frame of archaeological inquiry in time and space, this book highlights the critical awareness of archaeological classification and the importance of a multi-scalar perspective in understanding state formation. The great antiquity for the landscape ideology of Yu’s tracks draws our attention to the emergence of knowledge and ideology of kingship before the actual rise of state apparatus. The perspective taken in this book raised an important question for the study of state formation—how notions of time and place, technologies, object forms, materiality, and techniques of religious communication were brought together in culturally meaningful ways for the creation and representation of a classical tradition.