Jin of Xia
| Jin 廑 | |
|---|---|
| King of the Xia dynasty | |
| Reign | c. 1810 BC – c. 1789 BC |
| Predecessor | Jiong |
| Successor | Kong Jia |
| Father | Jiong |
Jǐn (廑) was the 13th king of the semi-legendary Xia Dynasty of China. His other name is Yinjia (胤甲).[1][2]
Reign
Jin probably ruled for about 21 years. His father was King Jiong of Xia and his name means "shack".
According to the Bamboo Annals, Jin moved the capital to West River (西河).[3] In the fourth year of Jin’s reign, he missed his former hometown and made the music of West Sound.[4]
In the eighth year of his reign, there was a very serious drought.[5][better source needed]
One of his vassals, Ji Fan (己樊), was the leader of Kunwu (昆吾) clan. Originally he was assigned to the land of Wei, but he moved his capital from Wei to Xu.
Sources
- ^ Albert E. Dien; Jeffrey K. Riegel; Nancy Thompson Price, eds. (1985). Chinese Archaeological Abstracts. Vol. 2: prehistoric to Western Zhou. Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.
- ^ Records of the Grand Historian, translated by Burton Watson (Columbia University, Revised Edition, 1993)
- ^ Bamboo Annals
- ^ James Legge (1865), The Chinese Classics, Volume 3, part 1.
- ^ Xia Dynasty by Valentino Križanić (Walenikino). "It was written that during the reign of Jin, several suns appeared in the sky and China was in the great drought. Jin died during the drought."