King Zhending of Zhou explained

King Zhending of Zhou 周貞定王
Succession:	King of China
Reign:	468–441 BC
Predecessor:	King Yuan of Zhou
Successor:	King Ai of Zhou
Full Name:	Ancestral name Jī (姬) Given name: Jiè (介)
House:	Zhou dynasty
Death Date:	441 BC
Father:	King Yuan of Zhou^[1]
Issue:	King Ai of Zhou King Si of Zhou King Kao of Zhou Duke Huan of Western Zhou

King Zhending of Zhou^[2], personal name Ji Jie, was the twenty-eighth king of the Chinese Zhou dynasty^[3] and the sixteenth of Eastern Zhou.^{[4] [5]} He ruled between 468 BC and 441 BC.

Family

King Zhending had four sons:

• First son, Prince Quji (Chinese: 王子去疾; d. 441 BC), ruled as King Ai of Zhou in 441 BC
• Prince Shuxi (Chinese: 王子叔襲; d. 441 BC), ruled as King Si of Zhou in 441 BC
• Prince Wei (Chinese: 王子嵬; d. 426 BC), ruled as King Kao of Zhou from 440 to 426 BC
• Prince Jie (Chinese: 王子揭; d. 415 BC), ruled as Duke Huan of Western Zhou (Chinese: 西周桓公) from 440 to 415 BC

See also

1. Family tree of ancient Chinese emperors

Notes and References

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. Guanghui . Jiang . 2008 . Problems Concerning the Rearrangement, Interpretation, and Orientation of the Ancient Preface to the Poetry (Shixu) . Contemporary Chinese Thought . en . 39 . 4 . 32 . 10.2753/CSP1097-1467390402 . 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. Book: Durt, Hubert . Problems of Chronology and Eschatology: Four Lectures on the Essay on Buddhism by Tominaga Nakamoto (1715–1746) . 1994 . Istituto italiano di cultura, Scuola di studi sull'Asia orientale . Kyoto.
4. Book: Sima, Qian . Sima Qian . Records of the Grand Historian.
5. Book: Phương Thi Danh . Niên biểu lịch sử Trung Quốc.