Ziban (; ; died 6 October 662 BC), personal name Ji Ban (姬般), was a ruler of the
Lu state
Lu (; 249 BC) was a vassal state during the Zhou dynasty of ancient China located around modern Shandong. Founded in the 11th century BC, its rulers were from a cadet branch of the House of Ji () that ruled the Zhou dynasty. The fi ...
. He is generally known in historiography as Ziban due to his reign being less than a year long, as Ziban died in the same year as his father,
Duke Zhuang.
[Miller (2015), p. 76]
Ziban's mother was Meng Ren (孟任), a woman from the Dang (黨) family who Duke Zhuang saw from a tower he built, which overlooked the Dang residence. Duke Zhuang followed her and promised to make her his concubine. Meng Ren agreed and made a covenant with him by cutting her arm. Later, Ziban was born.
After the death of Duke Zhuang in 662 BC, Prince You (友), Duke Zhuang's brother, installed Ziban to the Lu throne.
Two months into his reign, Ziban was murdered by Qingfu (慶父), another one of Duke Zhuang's brothers. Qingfu installed
Qi (Duke Min), Ziban's brother, to the Lu throne, while Prince You fled to the
Chen state.
References
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* ''
Zuo Zhuan
The ''Zuo Zhuan'' ( zh, t=左傳, w=Tso Chuan; ), often translated as ''The Zuo Tradition'' or as ''The Commentary of Zuo'', is an ancient Chinese narrative history traditionally regarded as a commentary on the ancient Chinese chronicle the '' ...
'',
Duke Zhuang
* ''
Shiji
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 cen ...
'', vol.
33
* Dong, Zhongshu; Queen, Sarah A.; Major, John S. (2016). ''Luxuriant gems of the spring and autumn''. Translations from the Asian classics. New York: Columbia University Press.
* Durrant, Stephen; Li, Wai-yee; Schaberg, David (2016). ''Zuo Tradition/Zuozhuan: Commentary on the "Spring and Autumn Annals"'' (1st ed.). Seattle: University of Washington Press.
* Miller, Harry (2015). ''The Gongyang Commentary on The Spring and Autumn Annals''. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US.
* Blakeley, Barry B. (1977-05). "Functional Disparities in the Socio-Political Traditions of Spring and Autumn China: Part I: Lu and Ch'i". ''Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient''. 20 (2).
660s BC deaths
7th-century BC Chinese monarchs
Monarchs of Lu (state)
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