King Huan of Zhou

King Huan of Zhou
周桓王
King of the Zhou dynasty
Reign719–697 BC
PredecessorKing Ping of Zhou
SuccessorKing Zhuang of Zhou[1]
Died697 BC
SpouseJi Ji Jiang
IssueKing Zhuang of Zhou
Zhou Wang Ji
Names
Ancestral name: Jī (姬)
Given name: Lín (林)
Posthumous name
King Huan (桓王)
HouseJi
DynastyZhou (Eastern Zhou)
FatherCrown Prince Xiefu

King Huan of Zhou (Chinese: 周桓王; pinyin: Zhōu Huán Wáng; Wade–Giles: Chou Huan Wang; died 697 BC), personal name Ji Lin (姬林),[2] was the fourteenth king of the Chinese Zhou dynasty[3][4] and the second of the Eastern Zhou dynasty.

King Huan's father was King Ping's son, Crown Prince Xiefu (洩父). King Huan succeeded his grandfather in 719 BC.[5]

In 707 BC, the Eastern Zhou forces were defeated in the Battle of Xuge by Duke Zhuang of Zheng. King Huan himself was wounded by an arrow in the shoulder, and the defeat destroyed the prestige of the Zhou royal court.[6]

King Huan was succeeded by his son, King Zhuang, in 697 BC.

  1. ^ Chinese Text Project, Rulers of the Zhou states – with links to their occurrences in pre-Qin and Han texts.
  2. ^ Michael Loewe; Edward L. Shaughnessy, eds. (1999), "Introduction", The Cambridge History of Ancient China, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1–36, doi:10.1017/CHOL9780521470308.002
  3. ^ Sử ký Tư Mã Thiên những điều chưa biết - Chu bản kỷ, Bùi Hạnh Cẩn - Việt Anh dịch (2005), NXB Văn hoá thông tin
  4. ^ Phương Thi Danh (2001), Niên biểu lịch sử Trung Quốc
  5. ^ Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian
  6. ^ Pines, Yuri (2002). Foundations of Confucian Thought: Intellectual Life in the Chunqiu period (722–453 B.C.E.). Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. p. 109. ISBN 9780824823962.