Yong Ji () or Lü Ji(呂己), personal name Zi Dian or Zi Zhou, was a

Shang dynasty The Shang dynasty (), also known as the Yin dynasty (), was a Chinese royal dynasty that ruled in the Yellow River valley during the second millennium BC, traditionally succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Western Zhou d ...

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. In the ''

Records of the Grand Historian The ''Shiji'', also known as ''Records of the Grand Historian'' or ''The Grand Scribe's Records'', is a Chinese historical text that is the first of the Twenty-Four Histories of imperial China. It was written during the late 2nd and early 1st ce ...

'' he was listed by

Sima Qian Sima Qian () was a Chinese historian during the early Han dynasty. He is considered the father of Chinese historiography for the ''Shiji'' (sometimes translated into English as ''Records of the Grand Historian''), a general history of China cov ...

as the eighth Shang king, succeeding his brother Xiao Jia (). He was enthroned in the year of Jiaxu () with Bo () as his capital. He ruled for 12 years, was given the posthumous name Yong Ji and was succeeded by brother Tai Wu ().

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inscriptions on

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s unearthed at Yinxu alternatively record that he was the eighth Shang king succeeding his brother Tai Wu (), given the posthumous name Lü Ji () and succeeded by his nephew Zhong Ding (). The economy began to decline under his rule.

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