Zu Ding

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Zu Ding (Chinese: 祖丁) was a King of China in the early Shang Dynasty (商朝). His pre-reign name was Zi Xin (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

Records

Sima Qian

In the Records of the Grand Historian he was listed by Sima Qian as the sixtteenth Shang king, succeeding his uncle Wo Jia (沃甲). He was enthroned in the year of Dingwei (丁未) with Bi () 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 (南庚).[1][2][3][4]

Oracle Bones

Oracle script inscriptions on oracle bones unearthed at Yinxu alternatively record that he was the fifthteenth Shang king.[3][4]

Attempts at chronological dating

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.

Zu Ding
Regnal titles
Preceded by
Wo Jia
King of China Succeeded by
Nan Geng

Notes and references

  1. Bai, Shouyi (2002). An Outline History of China. Beijing: Foreign Language Press. ISBN 7-119-02347-0. 
  2. "Emperor Table of Shang Dynasty". Travel China Guide. Archived from the original on March 23, 2008. Retrieved April 15, 2008. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 "The Shang Dynasty Rulers". China Knowledge. Retrieved August 7, 2007. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Shang Kingship And Shang Kinship". Indiana University. Retrieved August 7, 2007. 
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