King Huan of Zhou

King Huan of Zhou (Chinese: 周桓王; pinyin: Zhōu Húan Wáng; Wade–Giles: Chou Huan Wang; died 697 BC) was the fourteenth king of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty^[3][4] and the second of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770-256 BC).

His given name was Lín.^[5]

King Huan’s father was King Ping’ son, Crown Prince Xiefu. Huan succeeded his grandfather in 719 BC.^[6]

Son and successor of Huan was King Zhuang of Zhou.

In 707 BC, the royal forces were defeated in the Battle of Xuge (𦈡葛之战) by Duke Zhuang of Zheng (r.743-701). The king himself was wounded by an arrow in the shoulder, and the defeat destroyed the prestige of the Zhou house.^[7]

References

1. ↑ Chinese Text Project, Rulers of the Zhou states – with links to their occurrences in pre-Qin and Han texts.
2. ↑ Family tree of Chinese kings
3. ↑ Sử ký Tư Mã Thiên những điều chưa biết - Chu bản kỷ, Bùi Hạnh Cẩn - Việt Anh dịch (2005), NXB Văn hoá thông tin
4. ↑ Phương Thi Danh (2001), Niên biểu lịch sử Trung Quốc
5. ↑ The Cambridge history of ancient China: from the origins of civilization to 221 B.C. Written by Michael Loewe.
6. ↑ Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian
7. ↑ Pines, Yuri (2002). Foundations of Confucian Thought: Intellectual Life in the Chunqiu period (722-453 B.C.E.). Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. p. 109. ISBN 9780824823962. 

See also

• Family tree of ancient Chinese emperors