Nan Geng
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Nan Geng
| Nan Geng (Zi Geng) 南庚 (子更) | |
| Ancestral name (姓): | Zi (子) |
| Given name (名): | Geng (更) |
| King of Shang Dynasty | |
| Dates of reign: | |
| Posthumous name: | Nan Geng (南庚) |
| Dates are in the proleptic Julian calendar | |
Nan Geng (Chinese: 南庚, born Zi Geng (Chinese: 子更), was a Shang Dynasty King of China.
In the Records of the Grand Historian he was listed by Sima Qian as the seventeenth Shang king, succeeding his cousin Zu Ding (Chinese: 祖丁). He was enthroned in the year of Bingchen (Chinese: 丙辰) with Bi (Chinese: 庇) as his capital. In the third year of his reign he moved his captical to Yan (Chinese: 奄). He ruled for about 29 years before his death. He was given the posthumous name Nan Geng and was succeeded by his cousin's son Yang Jia (Chinese: 陽甲).[1][2][3][4]
Oracle script inscriptions on bones unearthed at Yinxu alternatively record that he was the sixteenth Shang king.[3][4]
References
- ^ Bai, Shouyi (2002). An Outline History of China. Beijing: Foreign Language Press. ISBN 7-119-02347-0.
- ^ "Emperor Table of Shang Dynasty". Travel China Guide. Archived from the original on March 23, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080323101157/http://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/history/shang/shang-dynasty-emperors.htm. Retrieved April 15, 2008.
- ^ a b "The Shang Dynasty Rulers". China Knowledge. http://chinaknowledge.de/History/Myth/shang-rulers.html. Retrieved August 7, 2007.
- ^ a b "Shang Kingship And Shang Kinship". Indiana University. http://www.indiana.edu/~g380/Kings.pdf. Retrieved August 7, 2007.[dead link]
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| Preceded by Zu Ding |
King of China | Succeeded by Yang Jia |
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