Nan Geng

Nan Geng (Zi Geng) 南庚 (子更)
Ancestral name (姓):	Zi (子)
Given name (名):	Geng (更)
King of Shang Dynasty
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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

1. ^ Bai, Shouyi (2002). An Outline History of China. Beijing: Foreign Language Press. ISBN 7-119-02347-0. 
2. ^ "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. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "The Shang Dynasty Rulers". China Knowledge. http://chinaknowledge.de/History/Myth/shang-rulers.html. Retrieved August 7, 2007. 
4. ^ ^{a b} "Shang Kingship And Shang Kinship". Indiana University. http://www.indiana.edu/~g380/Kings.pdf. Retrieved August 7, 2007. ^{[dead link]}

Nan Geng Shang Dynasty
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Preceded by Zu Ding	King of China	Succeeded by Yang Jia

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Name	Nan, Geng
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Short description	Shang Dynasty King of China
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