Tai Jia

Names
Surname	Zǐ ( Chinese   子 )
Birth Name	Zhì ( Chinese  至 )
Throne name from Shiji	Tài Jiǎ ( Chinese  太甲 )
Throne name from oracle bone	Dà Jiǎ ( Chinese  大甲 )
Temple name	Tài Zōng ( Chinese  太宗 )
Postum name	Wén König ( Chinese  文王 )
in German	Tai Jia

King Tai Jia ( Chinese  太甲 ; † 1720 BC) ruled China for 33 years as king of the Shang dynasty . He was the son of the actual Crown Prince Tai Ding , the son of King Cheng Tang . He reigned after King Tang. It is uncertain whether immediately afterwards, alone, together with his uncles or only after them.

background

After King Tang's death, Yi Yin served the Kings Wai Bing , Zhong Ren and Tai Jia. Since Tai Jia apparently did not continue the path taken by his predecessor in the sense of Yi Yin, he decided to put the king in Tong Gong under house arrest. After three years, Yi Yin regretted this tough step and gave Tai Jia back its royal dignity and power. After Tai Jia's death, Yi Yin is said to have published The Instructions of Yi or the Teachings of Yi from the Tai Jia case , which originally belonged as a chapter to the classic work Shàngshū ū . It was also Yi Yin who gave the late king his temple name. Yi Yin probably died during the reign of King Wo Ding and was buried near the capital Bo as if he had been a king himself. This shows the high position that the minister held within the Shang dynasty. Other sources state that Yi Yin was killed as a usurper by King Tai Jia when he escaped from his exile in Tong.

Comments on the temple name

In the Shang Dynasty, not every king had a temple name . Such a temple name means the honor from the subsequent rulers and their courts of the Shang dynasty. Tai Jia's temple name Tài Zōng ( Chinese  太宗 ) means high ancestor of the dynasty.

literature

• John Macgowan: T'ai Kia . In: A history of China from the earliest days down to the present . Presbyterian Mission Press, Shanghai 1897, p. 30–31 ( digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de [accessed on August 30, 2016]).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Shang Rulers. on chinaknowledge.de, accessed on August 30, 2016.
2. ↑ Very different information 33 years (r. 1753–1720) according to William Theodore De Bary: Sources of Japanese Tradition, Abridged: Part 1: 1600 to 1868 . Columbia University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-231-51814-7 , pp. 491 ( books.google.de ).
3. ^ Milton Walter Meyer: China: A Concise History . Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Md 1994, ISBN 0-8476-7953-5 , pp. 126 ( books.google.de ).
4. ↑ Yi Yin 伊尹. on chinaknowledge.de, accessed on August 30, 2016.

predecessor	Office	successor
Cheng Tang or Zhong Ren	King of China around 1753–1720 BC Chr.	Where thing