King Zhending of Zhou
Appearance
King Zhending of Zhou 周貞定王 | |||||
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King of China | |||||
Reign | 468–441 BC | ||||
Predecessor | King Yuan of Zhou | ||||
Successor | King Ai of Zhou | ||||
Died | 441 BC | ||||
Issue | King Ai of Zhou King Si of Zhou King Kao of Zhou | ||||
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House | Zhou Dynasty | ||||
Father | King Yuan of Zhou[1] |
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King Zhending of Zhou (Chinese: 周貞定王; pinyin: Zhōu Zhēndìng Wáng), or King Chenting of Chou,[2] was the twenty-eighth king of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty[3] and the sixteenth of Eastern Zhou.[4][5]
Famous philosopher Mozi was born between the reigns of King Jing and King Zhending of the Zhou Dynasty.[6]
Zhending had four sons.
Sources
- ^ A Journey Into China's Antiquity: Palaeolithic Age, Low Neolithic Age, Upper Neolithic Age, Xia Dynasty, Shang Dynasty, Western Zhou Dynasty, Spring and Autumn Period
- ^ Contemporary Chinese Thought: Translations and Studies. "It is just as the Qing Dynasty scholar Gu Yanwu pointed out about the 133-year period between year two of the reign of King Zhending of Zhou (467 b.c.e.) and year thirty-five of the reign of King Xian of Zhou (334 b.c.e.)."
- ^ Problems of chronology and eschatology: four lectures on the Essay on Buddhism by Tominaga Nakamoto (1715-1746)
- ^ Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian
- ^ Phương Thi Danh, Niên biểu lịch sử Trung Quốc
- ^ Wu Leichuan: a Confucian-Christian in republican China.