King Ping of Zhou

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Not to be confused with King Ping of Chu.
King Ping of Zhou
周平王
King of China
Reign 770–720 BC
Predecessor King You of Zhou
Successor King Huan of Zhou
Issue
Prince Wu
Crown Prince Xiefu
Full name
Ancestral name: Jī (姬)
Given name: Yíjiù (宜臼)
House Zhou Dynasty
Father King You of Zhou[1]
Mother Queen Shen (daughter of the Marquess of Shen)
Died 720 BC
Wu Zetian claimed she was a descendant of King Ping

King Ping of Zhou (died 720 BC) (Chinese: 周平王; pinyin: Zhōu Píng Wáng), formerly romanized as King P’ing of Chou,[2] was the thirteenth king of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty and the first of Eastern Zhou Dynasty.[3] He was the son of King You of Zhou and Queen Shen, and was known as Crown Prince Yijiu before ascending the throne.[4]

King You had exiled Queen Shen and Yijiu after the king became enamoured with his concubine Bao Si and made her queen.[5] As a result, Queen Shen’s father, the Marquess of Shen, teamed with the Quanrong nomads and local satellite states to overthrow King You.[6][7] You was killed, and Bao Si captured. Yijiu ascended the throne and was posthumously known as King Ping of Zhou.

King Ping moved the Zhou Dynasty east from Haojing to Luoyang,[8] thus ending the Western Zhou[9] and beginning the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn period. He is the first Zhou king to be mentioned in the chronological account of the Zuo Zhuan.

Over 14 centuries after King Ping’s death, Tang Dynasty Empress regnant Wu Zetian claimed ancestry from King Ping through his son Prince Wu, and changed the dynastic name to Zhou, which was reverted to Tang after her death.[10]

King Ping’s son was Xiefu, father of the King Huan of Zhou.

References

  1. ↑ Chinese Text Project, Rulers of the Zhou states – with links to their occurrences in pre-Qin and Han texts.
  2. ↑ Phương Thi Danh (2001), Niên biểu lịch sử Trung Quốc
  3. ↑ Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian
  4. ↑ The Cambridge history of ancient China: from the origins of civilization to 221 B.C. Written by Michael Loewe.
  5. ↑ Giles, Herbert A. (1912). The Civilization of China. Tutis Digital Publishing. ISBN 81-320-0448-5.  Chapter 1
  6. ↑ Sima Qian. Records of the Grand Historian, "Zhou Dynasty Annals".
  7. ↑ Bamboo Annals
  8. ↑ Zheng Zhu (郑注), "Classic of Rites · Unified Sacrifices (礼记·祭统》）
  9. ↑ Shaughnessy (1990:350)
  10. ↑ Paludan, 101

See also

King Ping of Zhou
Died: 720 BC
Regnal titles
Preceded by
King You of Zhou		 King of China
770–720 BC 		Succeeded by
King Huan of Zhou
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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