Jǐn (廑) was the
13th king of the semi-legendary
Xia Dynasty
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of
China. His other name is Yinjia (胤甲).
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Reign
Jin probably ruled for about 21 years. His father was
King
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Jiong of Xia and his name means "
shack".
According to the ''
Bamboo Annals'', Jin moved the
capital to 'Western He'
(西河). In the fourth year of Jin’s reign, he missed his former hometown and made the music of West Sound.
James Legge
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who was best known as an early translator of Classical Chinese texts into English. Legge served as a representative of the London ...
(1865)
''The Chinese Classics, Volume 3, part 1''.
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In the eighth year of his reign, it is recorded in the Bamboo Annals that ten suns rose in the sky causing a very serious drought
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.[古本竹書紀年,夏記,"天有祅孽，十日並出"]
One of his vassal
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s, Ji Fan (己樊), was the leader of Kunwu (昆吾) clan. Originally he was assigned to the land of Wei, but he moved his capital from Wei to Xu.
Sources
{{Kings of Xia
Xia dynasty kings