King Nan of Zhou

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King Nan of Zhou
周赧王
King of China
Reign 314–256 BC
Predecessor King Shenjing of Zhou
Full name
Ancestral name: Jī (姬)
Given name: Yán (延)
House Zhou Dynasty
Father King Shenjing of Zhou[1]
Died 256 BC

King Nan of Zhou (Chinese: 周赧王; pinyin: Zhōu Nǎn Wáng), or less commonly King Yin of Zhou (Chinese: 周隱王; pinyin: Zhōu Yǐn Wáng) was the thirty-sixth and last king of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty, the son of the King Shenjing of Zhou and grandson of King Xian of Zhou.[2] He was a King for fifty-nine years,[3] longest in Zhou Dynasty and all the pre-imperial China[4] (in terms of the reign length followed by King Mu of Zhou).

King Nan was killed after annexation of his kingdom by Qin in 256 BC.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Cambridge History of ancient China
  2. ↑ Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian
  3. ↑ Trình Doãn Thắng, Ngô Trâu Cương, Thái Thành (1998), Cố sự Quỳnh Lâm, NXB Thanh Hoá
  4. ↑ Pines, Envisioning Eternal Empire, 2009:238-9.
King Nan of Zhou
Died: 256 BC
Regnal titles
Preceded by
King Shenjing of Zhou		 King of China
314–256 BC 		Vacant
Title next held by
Qin Shi Huang
as Emperor of China
Kings of the Zhou Dynasty
Western Zhou
Eastern Zhou
Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors → Xia → Shang → Zhou → Qin → Han → Three Kingdoms → Jìn (265-420) / Sixteen Kingdoms → Southern Dynasties / Yuan Wei - Northern Qi - Northern Zhou → Sui → Tang → Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms - Liao / Song / Western Xia / Jīn (1115-1234) → Yuan → Ming → Qing → ROC / PRC
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