Zu Ding
Zu Ding (Template:Zh), personal name Zi Xin, was a king of the Chinese Shang dynasty.
Records
In the Records of the Grand Historian he was listed by Sima Qian as the sixteenth Shang king, succeeding his uncle Wo Jia (Script error: No such module "Lang".). He was enthroned in the year of Dingwei (Script error: No such module "Lang".) with Bi (Script error: No such module "Lang".) 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 (Script error: No such module "Lang".).[1][2][3]
Oracle script inscriptions on oracle bones unearthed at Yinxu alternatively record that he was the fifteenth Shang king.[2][3]
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.[4]
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