Yong Ji

Yong Ji (Zi Dian/Zhou) 雍己 (子佃/伷)
Ancestral name (姓):	Zi (子)
Given name (名):	Dian (佃) or Zhou (伷)
King of Shang Dynasty
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Posthumous name:	Yong Ji (雍己)
Dates are in the proleptic Julian calendar

Yong Ji (Chinese: 雍己, born Zi Dian (Chinese: 子佃) or Zi Zhou (Chinese: 子伷), was a Shang Dynasty King of China.

In the Records of the Grand Historian he was listed by Sima Qian as the eighth Shang king, succeeding his brother Xiao Jia (Chinese: 太庚). He was enthroned in the year of Jiaxu (Chinese: 甲戌) with Bo (Chinese: 亳) as his capital. He ruled for 12 years, was given the posthumous name Yong Ji and was succeeded by brother Tai Wu (Chinese: 太戊).^[1]^[2]^[3]

Oracle script inscriptions on bones unearthed at Yinxu alternatively record that he was the eighth Shang king succeeding his brother Da Wu (Chinese: 大戊), given the posthumous name Lü Ji (Chinese: 呂己) and succeeded by his nephew Zhong Ding (Chinese: 中丁).^[2]^[3]

References

^ Bai, Shouyi (2002). An Outline History of China. Beijing: Foreign Language Press. ISBN 7-119-02347-0.
^ ^a ^b "The Shang Dynasty Rulers". China Knowledge. http://chinaknowledge.de/History/Myth/shang-rulers.html. Retrieved August 7, 2007.
^ ^a ^b "Shang Kingship And Shang Kinship". Indiana University. http://www.indiana.edu/~g380/Kings.pdf. Retrieved August 7, 2007.

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Yong Ji Shang Dynasty
Preceded by Xiao Jia	King of China	Succeeded by Tai Wu

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