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, it is recorded in the Bamboo Annals that ten suns rose in the sky causing a very serious drought.[5]
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.
- ^ 古本竹書紀年,夏記,"天有祅孽，十日並出"
Categories:
- 19th-century BC rulers
- 18th-century BC rulers
- Xia dynasty kings