Zu Ding (Chinese: 祖丁) was a King of China in the early Shang Dynasty (商朝). His pre-reign name was Zi Xin (Chinese: 子新).
| Zu Ding (Zi Xin) 祖丁 (子新) | |
| Ancestral name (姓): | Zi (子) |
| Given name (名): | Xin (新) |
| King of Shang Dynasty | |
| Dates of reign: | 1368--36 BCE |
| Posthumous name: | Zu Ding (祖丁) |
| Dates are in the proleptic Julian calendar | |
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In the Records of the Grand Historian he was listed by Sima Qian as the sixtteenth Shang king, succeeding his uncle Wo Jia (Chinese: 沃甲). He was enthroned in the year of Dingwei (Chinese: 丁未) with Bi (Chinese: 庇) as his capital. He ruled for about 32 years before his death. He was given the posthumous name Zu Ding and was succeeded by his cousin Nan Geng (Chinese: 南庚).[1][2][3][4]
Oracle script inscriptions on oracle bones unearthed at Yinxu alternatively record that he was the fifthteenth Shang king.[3][4]
The Xia Shang Zhou Chronology Project, a broad Chinese academic enquiry, published results in 2000 placing Zu Ding as a contemporary of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten — the latter's reign beginning later than Zu Ding's, but both terminating in the mid-1330s BCE.
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| Preceded by Wo Jia |
King of China | Succeeded by Nan Geng |