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The Shang dynasty (Chinese: 商朝; pinyin: Shāng cháo), also known as the Yin dynasty (殷代; Yīn dài), was a Chinese royal dynasty that ruled in the Yellow River valley during the second millennium BC, traditionally succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Western Zhou dynasty. The classic account of the Shang comes from texts such ...
The Shang dynasty practiced royal succession using a form of agnatic seniority, at times distributed across multiple lines of descent. [ 10 ] : 198–199 In the generations preceding Wu Ding, succession had been split between the descendants of Zu Yi (祖乙) through his two sons Zu Xin (祖辛) and Qiang Jia (沃甲). [ 11 ]
Rib of a rhinoceros killed in a royal hunt, bearing an inscription including the character 商 (Shāng, fifth character from the bottom on the right) [2]. The Late Shang, also known as the Anyang period, is the earliest known literate civilization in China, spanning the reigns of the last nine kings of the Shang dynasty, beginning with Wu Ding in the second half of the 13th century BC and ...
Cheng Tang [a] (born Zi Lü [b] [1]), recorded on oracle bones as, in English, Tai Yi [1] (太乙) or Da Yi (大乙), was the first king of the Shang dynasty. Tang is traditionally considered a virtuous ruler, as signified with the common nickname of " Tang the Perfect " (Cheng Tang) given to him. [ 2 ]
Wen Wu Ding (Chinese: 文武丁) or Wen Ding (文丁) or Tai Ding (太丁), personal name Zi Tuo (子托; Zǐ Tuō), was a king of the Shang dynasty of Ancient China.His reign was from 1116 to 1106 BC [1] according to the Cambridge History, or 1112 to 1102/1 BC according to the Xia–Shang–Zhou Chronology Project.
The periodization of the Shang dynasty is the use of periodization to organize the history of the Shang dynasty (ca. 1600-1046 BC) in ancient China. The Shang dynasty was a Chinese royal dynasty that ruled in the Yellow River valley for over 500 years, traditionally succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Zhou dynasty .
A Shang religious text written by the Bīn 賓 group of diviners from period I, corresponding to the reign of King Wu Ding (c. 1250 BCE) [1]The second royal regime of China, the Shang dynasty (c. 1600 - 1046 BCE), developed a polytheistic religion that focused on worshipping spiritual beings. [2]
Unlike the Xia, the Shang dynasty's historicity is firmly established, due to written records on divination objects known as Oracle bones. The oldest such oracle bones date to the Late Shang ( c. 1250—1046 BCE ), during the reign of Wu Ding (1250–1192), putting the exact details of earlier rulers into doubt.