Zu Ji
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| Zu Ji (祖己) | |
| Ancestral name (姓): | Zi (子) |
| Given name (名): | |
| Prince of Shang Dynasty | |
| Dates of reign: | |
| Posthumous name: | Zu Ji (祖己) |
| Dates are in the proleptic Julian calendar | |
Zu Ji (in Chinese:"祖己") was the eldest son of King Wu Ding but despite his kingly title he never succeeded his father as a Shang Dynasty King of China.
In the Records of the Grand Historian he was said by Sima Qian to have died in distant exile during the twenty-fifth year of his father's reign.[1]
Oracle script inscriptions on bones unearthed at Yinxu confirm his lineage and his failure to succeed to the throne.[2][3]
[edit] References
- ^ Bai, Shouyi (2002). An Outline History of China. Beijing: Foreign Language Press. ISBN 7-119-02347-0.
- ^ "The Shang Dynasty Rulers". China Knowledge. http://chinaknowledge.de/History/Myth/shang-rulers.html. Retrieved August 7, 2007.
- ^ "Shang Kingship And Shang Kinship". Indiana University. http://www.indiana.edu/~g380/Kings.pdf. Retrieved August 7, 2007.[dead link]
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