King Ling of Zhou (), personal name Ji Xiexin, was the twenty-third king of the Chinese
Zhou dynasty
The Zhou dynasty ( ; Old Chinese ( B&S): *''tiw'') was a royal dynasty of China that followed the Shang dynasty. Having lasted 789 years, the Zhou dynasty was the longest dynastic regime in Chinese history. The military control of China by ...
and the eleventh of Eastern Zhou. He died in 545 BC.
In the twenty-first year of his reign,
Confucius
Confucius ( ; zh, s=, p=Kǒng Fūzǐ, "Master Kǒng"; or commonly zh, s=, p=Kǒngzǐ, labels=no; – ) was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages. C ...
was born.
His successor was his son
King Jĭng of Zhou.
His other son was the Crown prince Ji Jin (姬晉). Empress
Wu Zetian
Wu Zetian (17 February 624 – 16 December 705), personal name Wu Zhao, was the ''de facto'' ruler of the Tang dynasty from 665 to 705, ruling first through others and then (from 690) in her own right. From 665 to 690, she was first empres ...
claimed that her lover
Zhang Changzong
Zhang Yizhi (張易之; died February 20, 705),Both volume 207 of ''Zizhi Tongjian'' and Wu Zetian's biography in volume 4 of ''New Book of Tang'' recorded that the Shenglong Coup took place on the ''guimao'' day of the 1st month of the 1st year of ...
was a reincarnation of Ji Jin.
Ancestor of the Taiyuan Wang
During the Tang dynasty the Li family of Zhaojun
赵郡李氏, the Cui family of Boling
博陵崔氏, the Cui family of Qinghe
清河崔氏, the Lu family of Fanyang
范陽盧氏, the Zheng family of Xingyang
荥阳郑氏, the Wang family of Taiyuan
太原王氏, and the Li family of Longxi
隴西李氏 were the seven noble families among whom marriage was banned by law.
Moriya Mitsuo wrote a history of the Later Han-Tang period of the Taiyuan Wang. Among the strongest families was the Taiyuan Wang.
The prohibition on marriage between the clans issued in 659 by the Gaozong Emperor was flouted by the seven families since a woman of the Boling Cui married a member of the Taiyuan Wang, giving birth to the poet Wang Wei.
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He was the son of Wang Chulian who in turn was the son of Wang Zhou.
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The marriages between the families were performed clandestinely after the prohibition was implemented on the seven families by Gaozong.
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The Zhou dynasty King Ling's son Prince Jin is assumed by most to be the ancestor of the Taiyuan Wang.
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The Longmen Wang were a cadet line of the Zhou dynasty descended Taiyuan Wang, and Wang Yan and his grandson Wang Tong hailed from this cadet line.
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Both Buddhist monks and scholars hailed from the Wang family of Taiyuan such as the monk Tanqian.
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The Wang family of Taiyuan included Wang Huan.
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Their status as "Seven Great surnames" became known during Gaozong's rule.
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The Taiyuan Wang family produced Wang Jun who served under
Emperor Huai of Jin
Emperor Huai of Jin (; 284 – March 14, 313), personal name Sima Chi (司馬熾), courtesy name Fengdu (豐度), was an emperor of the Jin Dynasty (266–420).
Emperor Huai was captured in 311 and later executed in 313 under the order of Liu ...
.
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A Fuzhou based section of the Taiyuan Wang produced the Buddhist monk Baizhang.
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Family
Queens:
* Qi Jiang, of the Jiang clan of
Qi (), possibly a daughter of
Duke Ling of Qi
Duke Ling of Qi (; died 554 BC) was from 581 to 554 BC ruler of the State of Qi, a major power during the Spring and Autumn period of ancient China. His personal name was Lü Huan (呂環), ancestral name Jiang ( 姜), and Duke Ling was his pos ...
; married in 558 BC
Sons:
* First son, Crown Prince Jin (), the father of Zongjing (), who served as the
Minister of Education of Zhou
* Prince Gui (; d. 520 BC), ruled as
King Jĭng of Zhou from 544–520 BC
* Prince Ningfu (; d. 543 BC)
Ancestry
See also
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Family tree of ancient Chinese emperors
Notes
545 BC deaths
Zhou dynasty kings
6th-century BC Chinese monarchs
Year of birth unknown
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