King Zhending of Zhou

King Zhending of Zhou
周貞定王
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
Full name
Ancestral name: (姬)
Given name: Jiè (介)
House Zhou Dynasty
Father King Yuan of Zhou[1]

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

  1. 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
  2. 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.)."
  3. Problems of chronology and eschatology: four lectures on the Essay on Buddhism by Tominaga Nakamoto (1715-1746)
  4. Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian
  5. Phương Thi Danh, Niên biểu lịch sử Trung Quốc
  6. Wu Leichuan: a Confucian-Christian in republican China.
King Zhending of Zhou
Died: 441 BC
Regnal titles
Preceded by
King Yuan of Zhou
King of China
468–441 BC
Succeeded by
King Ai of Zhou


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