Jǐn (廑) was the
13th king of the semi-legendary
Xia dynasty
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of
China
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. 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
Jiong () was the twelfth king of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty.
Family
Jiōng was a son of Xie of Xia and his spouse and thus a grandson of Máng and brother of Bu Jiang.
His own consort is unknown. His son was Jǐn and his nephew was Kong ...
and his name means "
shack
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".
According to the ''
Bamboo Annals
The ''Bamboo Annals'' ( zh, t=竹書紀年, p=Zhúshū Jìnián), also known as the ''Ji Tomb Annals'' ( zh, t=汲冢紀年, p=Jí Zhǒng Jìnián), is a chronicle of ancient China.
It begins in the earliest legendary time (the age of the Yellow E ...
'', Jin moved the
capital
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Econom ...
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 Lond ...
(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
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Kings of the Xia dynasty