Zu Xin (), personal name Zi Dan, was a

Shang dynasty The Shang dynasty (), also known as the Yin dynasty (), was a Chinese royal dynasty founded by Tang of Shang (Cheng Tang) that ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC, traditionally succeeding the Xia dynasty and ...

King of China. In the ''

Records of the Grand Historian ''Records of the Grand Historian'', also known by its Chinese name ''Shiji'', is a monumental history of China that is the first of China's 24 dynastic histories. The ''Records'' was written in the early 1st century by the ancient Chinese hist ...

'' he was listed by

Sima Qian Sima Qian (; ; ) was a Chinese historian of the early Han dynasty (206AD220). He is considered the father of Chinese historiography for his ''Records of the Grand Historian'', a general history of China covering more than two thousand years b ...

as the fourteenth Shang king, succeeding his Father

Zu Yi Zu Yi (), personal name Zǐ Téng, was a Shang dynasty King of China. In the ''Records of the Grand Historian'' he was listed by Sima Qian as the thirteenth Shang king, succeeding his Father He Dan Jia (). He was enthroned in the year of Jisi () ...

(). He was enthroned in the year of Wuzi () with Bi () as his capital. He ruled for about 16 years (although the ''

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'' claim 14 years) before his death. He was given the posthumous name Zu Xin and was succeeded by his younger brother Wo Jia (). Oracle script inscriptions on bones unearthed at

Yinxu Yinxu (modern ; ) is the site of one of the ancient and major historical capitals of China. It is the source of the archeological discovery of oracle bones and oracle bone script, which resulted in the identification of the earliest known Chine ...

alternatively record that he was the thirteenth Shang king.

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