King Zhending of Zhou (
Chinese: 周貞定王;
pinyin: Zhōu Zhēndìng Wáng), personal name Ji Jie,[2] 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 (王子去疾; d. 441 BC), ruled as
King Ai of Zhou in 441 BC
Prince Shuxi (王子叔襲; d. 441 BC), ruled as
King Si of Zhou in 441 BC
Prince Wei (王子嵬; d. 426 BC), ruled as
King Kao of Zhou from 440–426 BC
Prince Jie (王子揭; d. 415 BC), ruled as Duke Huan of Western Zhou (西周桓公) from 440–415 BC
^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
^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.)."
^Problems of chronology and eschatology: four lectures on the Essay on Buddhism by Tominaga Nakamoto (1715-1746)