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Shang
商
Kingdom
c. 1600 BC–c. 1046 BC
Remnants of advanced, stratified societies dating back to the Shang period have been found in the Yellow River Valley.
Capital Yin (modern Anyang)
Languages Old Chinese
Religion Chinese folk religion
Government Monarchy
Historical era Bronze Age
• Established c. 1600 BC
• Zhou conquest c. 1046 BC
Area
• 1122 BC est.[1] 1,250,000 km2 (480,000 sq mi)
Preceded by Succeeded by
Xia dynasty
Zhou dynasty
Today part of China
Shang
"Shang" in oracle bone script (top left), bronze script (top right), seal script (bottom left), and regular (bottom right) Chinese characters
Chinese
商
[show]Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Shāng
Wade–Giles
Shang1
IPA
[ʂáŋ]
Wu
Suzhounese
Saon
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Sēung
IPA
[sœ́ːŋ]
Jyutping
Soeng1
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ
Siong
Old Chinese
Baxter–Sagart (2014)
*s-tang
Alternative Chinese name
Chinese
殷代
Literal meaning
Yin era
[show]Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Yīn dài
Wade–Giles
Yin tai
Wu
Romanization
In de
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Yān doih
Jyutping
Jan1 doi6
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ
Ûn tāi
Old Chinese
Baxter–Sagart (2014)
*ʔər m-traw
History of China
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Neolithic c. 8500 – c. 2070 BC
Xia dynasty c. 2070 – c. 1600 BC
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The Shang dynasty (Chinese: 商朝; pinyin: Shāng cháo) or Yin dynasty (殷代; Yīn dài), according to traditional historiography, ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC, succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Zhou dynasty. The classic account of the Shang comes from texts such as the Book of Documents, Bamboo Annals and Records of the Grand Historian. According to the traditional chronology based on calculations made approximately 2,000 years ago by Liu Xin, the Shang ruled from 1766 to 1122 BC, but according to the chronology based upon the "current text" of Bamboo Annals, they ruled from 1556 to 1046 BC. The Xia–Shang–Zhou Chronology Project dated them from c. 1600 to 1046 BC.
The Shang dynasty is the earliest dynasty of traditional Chinese history supported by archaeological evidence. Excavation at the Ruins of Yin (near modern-day Anyang), which has been identified as the last Shang capital, uncovered eleven major royal tombs and the foundations of palaces and ritual sites, containing weapons of war and remains from both animal and human sacrifices. Tens of thousands of bronze, jade, stone, bone, and ceramic artifacts have been found.
The Anyang site has yielded the earliest known body of Chinese writing, mostly divinations inscribed on oracle bones – turtle shells, ox scapulae, or other bones. More than 20,000 were discovered in the initial scientific excavations during the 1920s and 1930s, and over four times as many have been found since. The inscriptions provide critical insight into many topics from the politics, economy, and religious practices to the art and medicine of this early stage of Chinese civilization.[2]
Contents
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1 Traditional accounts
1.1 Course of the dynasty
2 Early Bronze Age archaeology
2.1 Yellow River valley
2.1.1 Yinxu site
2.1.2 Huanbei site
2.1.3 Zhengzhou Shang City
2.1.4 Yanshi
2.2 Panlongcheng site
2.3 Background
2.4 Related and contemporary sites
2.5 Genetic studies
3 Late Shang at Anyang
3.1 Court life
3.2 Religion
3.3 Bronze working
3.4 Military
4 Kings
5 Descendants of the Shang royal family
6 See also
7 References
8 Further reading
9 External links
Traditional accounts[edit]
Many events concerning the Shang dynasty are mentioned in various Chinese classics, including the Book of Documents, the Mencius and the Zuo Zhuan. Working from all the available documents, the Han dynasty historian Sima Qian assembled a sequential account of the Shang dynasty as part of his Records of the Grand Historian. His history describes some events in detail, while in other cases only the name of a king is given.[3] A closely related, but slightly different, account is given by the Bamboo Annals. The Annals were interred in 296 BC, but the text has a complex history and the authenticity of the surviving versions is controversial.[4]
The name Yīn (殷) is used by Sima Qian for the dynasty, and in the "current text" version of the Bamboo Annals for both the dynasty and its final capital. It has been a popular name for the Shang throughout history. Since the Records of Emperors and Kings by Huangfu Mi (3rd century AD), it has often been used specifically to describe the later half of the Shang dynasty. In Japan and Korea, the Shang are still referred to almost exclusively as the Yin (In) dynasty. However it seems to have been a Zhou name for the earlier dynasty. The word does not appear in the oracle bones, which refer to the state as Shāng (商), and the capital as Dàyì Shāng (大邑商 "Great Settlement Shang").[5] It also does not appear in securely-dated Western Zhou bronze inscriptions.[6]
Course of the dynasty[edit]
Sima Qian's Annals of the Yin begins by describing the predynastic founder of the Shang lineage, Xie (偰) — also appearing as Qi (契) — as having been miraculously conceived when Jiandi, a wife of Emperor Ku, swallowed an egg dropped by a black bird. Xie is said to have helped Yu the Great to control the Great Flood and for his service to have been granted a place called Shang as a fief.[7]
Sima Qian relates that the dynasty itself was founded 13 generations later, when Xie's descendant Tang overthrew the impious and cruel final Xia ruler in the Battle of Mingtiao. The Records recount events from the reigns of Tang, Tai Jia, Tai Wu, Pan Geng, Wu Ding, Wu Yi and the depraved final king Di Xin, but the rest of the Shang rulers are merely mentioned by name. According to the Records, the Shang moved their capital five times, with the final move to Yin in the reign of Pan Geng inaugurating the golden age of the dynasty.[8]
Di Xin, the last Shang king, is said to have committed suicide after his army was defeated by Wu of Zhou. Legends say that his army and his equipped slaves betrayed him by joining the Zhou rebels in the decisive Battle of Muye. According to the Yi Zhou Shu and Mencius the battle was very bloody. The classic, Ming-era novel Fengshen Yanyi retells the story of the war between Shang and Zhou as a conflict where rival factions of gods supported different sides in the war.
After the Shang were defeated, King Wu allowed Di Xin's son Wu Geng to rule the Shang as a vassal kingdom. However, Zhou Wu sent three of his brothers and an army to ensure that Wu Geng would not rebel.[9][10][11] After Zhou Wu's death, the Shang joined the Rebellion of the Three Guards against the Duke of Zhou, but the rebellion collapsed after three years, leaving Zhou in control of Shang territory.
Early Bronze Age archaeology[edit]
Main article: Shang archaeology
Further information: History of Chinese archaeology
Fragments; shards Wheel-thrown earthenware with carved designs China, Shang dynasty, about 1700-1023 B.C.
Before the 20th century, the Zhou dynasty (1046–256 BC) was the earliest Chinese dynasty that could be verified from its own records. However, during the Song dynasty (960–1279 AD), antiquarians collected bronze ritual vessels attributed to the Shang era, some of which bore inscriptions.[12] These types of early inscriptions were later traced to the Yinxu site in the Yellow River valley.
Yellow River valley[edit]
There are several important Shang sites in the Yellow River valley.
Yinxu site[edit]
In 1899, several scholars noticed that Chinese pharmacists were selling "dragon bones" marked with curious and archaic characters.[12] These were finally traced back in 1928 to a site (now called Yinxu) near Anyang, north of the Yellow River in modern Henan province, where the Academia Sinica undertook archeological excavation until the Japanese invasion in 1937.[12]
Archaeologists focused on the Yellow River valley in Henan as the most likely site of the states described in the traditional histories.
Huanbei site[edit]
The remains of a walled city of about 470 hectares (1,200 acres) were discovered in 1999 across the Huan River from the well explored Yinxu site. The city, now known as Huanbei, was apparently occupied for less than a century and destroyed shortly before the construction of the Yinxu complex.[13][14]
Zhengzhou Shang City[edit]
After 1950, the remnants of the earlier walled settlement of Shang City were discovered near Zhengzhou.[12] It has been determined that the earth walls at Zhengzhou, erected in the 15th century BC, would have been 20 m (66 ft) wide at the base, rising to a height of 8 m (26 ft), and formed a roughly rectangular wall 7 km (4 mi) around the ancient city.[15][16] The rammed earth construction of these walls was an inherited tradition, since much older fortifications of this type have been found at Chinese Neolithic sites of the Longshan culture (c. 3000–2000 BC).[15]
Yanshi[edit]
There are two important archaeological sites near the modern city of Yanshi on the Luo River, a tributary of the Yellow River.
In 1959, the site of the Erlitou culture was found in Yanshi, south of the Yellow River near Luoyang.[15] Radiocarbon dating suggests that the Erlitou culture flourished ca. 2100 BC to 1800 BC. They built large palaces, suggesting the existence of an organized state.[17]
In 1983, Yanshi Shang City was discovered 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) north-east of the Erlitou site in Yanshi's Shixianggou Township. This was a large walled city dating from 1600 BC. It had an area of nearly 200 hectares (490 acres) and featured pottery characteristic of the Erligang culture.
Panlongcheng site[edit]
The Panlongcheng site in the middle Yangtze valley was an important regional center of the Erligang culture.[18]
Background[edit]
Chinese historians living in later periods were accustomed to the notion of one dynasty succeeding another, and readily identified the Erligang and Erlitou sites with the early Shang and Xia dynasty of traditional histories.
The actual political situation in early China may have been more complicated, with the Xia and Shang being political entities that existed concurrently, just as the early Zhou, who established the successor state of the Shang, are known to have existed at the same time as the Shang.[19] It has also been suggested the Xia legend originated during the Shang dynasty, the Shang having a myth of a people preceding them who were their inverse.[20]
Related and contemporary sites[edit]
Erlitou
Zhengzhou
Panlongcheng
Anyang
Sanxingdui
Wucheng
Major archaeological sites of the second millennium BC in north and central China
The Erligang culture represented by the Yellow River sites is found across a wide area of China, even as far northeast as the area of modern Beijing, where at least one burial in this region during this period contained both Erligang-style bronzes and local-style gold jewelry.[19] The discovery of a Chenggu-style ge dagger-axe at Xiaohenan demonstrates that even at this early stage of Chinese history, there were some ties between the distant areas of north China.[19]
Accidental finds elsewhere in China have revealed advanced civilizations contemporaneous with but culturally unlike the settlement at Anyang, such as the walled city of Sanxingdui in Sichuan. Western scholars are hesitant to designate such settlements as belonging to the Shang dynasty.[21] Also unlike the Shang, there is no known evidence that the Sanxingdui culture had a system of writing.
In contrast, the earliest layers of the Wucheng site, pre-dating Anyang, have yielded pottery fragments containing short sequences of symbols, suggesting that they may be a form of writing quite different in form from oracle bone characters, but the sample is too small for decipherment.[22][23][24]
Genetic studies[edit]
A study of mitochondrial DNA (inherited in the maternal line) from Yinxu graves showed similarity with modern northern Han Chinese, but significant differences from southern Han Chinese.[25]
Late Shang at Anyang[edit]
Oracle bones pit at Yin
The oldest extant direct records date from around 1200 BC at Anyang, covering the reigns of the last nine Shang kings. The Shang had a fully developed system of writing, preserved on bronze inscriptions and a small number of other writings on pottery, jade and other stones, horn, etc., but most prolifically on oracle bones.[26] The complexity and sophistication of this writing system indicates an earlier period of development, but direct evidence of that development is still lacking. Other advances included the invention of many musical instruments and observations of Mars and various comets by Shang astronomers.[27]
Their civilization was based on agriculture and augmented by hunting and animal husbandry.[28] In addition to war, the Shang also practiced human sacrifice.[29] Crania of sacrificial victims have been found to be similar to modern Chinese ones (based on comparisons with remains from Hainan and Taiwan).[30][31] Cowry shells were also excavated at Anyang, suggesting trade with coast-dwellers, but there was very limited sea trade in ancient China since China was isolated from other large civilizations during the Shang period.[32] Trade relations and diplomatic ties with other formidable powers via the Silk Road and Chinese voyages to the Indian Ocean did not exist until the reign of Emperor Wu during the Han dynasty (206 BC–221 AD).[33][34]
Court life[edit]
Oracle shell with inscriptions.
Bronzewares from the excavated tomb of Fu Hao
At the excavated royal palace of Yinxu, large stone pillar bases were found along with rammed earth foundations and platforms, which according to Fairbank, were "as hard as cement".[12] These foundations in turn originally supported 53 buildings of wooden post-and-beam construction.[12] In close proximity to the main palatial complex, there were underground pits used for storage, servants' quarters, and housing quarters.[12]
Many Shang royal tombs had been tunneled into and ravaged by grave robbers in ancient times,[35] but in the spring of 1976, the discovery of Tomb 5 at Yinxu revealed a tomb that was not only undisturbed, but one of the most richly furnished Shang tombs that archaeologists had yet come across.[36] With over 200 bronze ritual vessels and 109 inscriptions of Lady Fu Hao's name, Zheng Zhenxiang and other archaeologists realized they had stumbled across the tomb of King Wu Ding's most famous consort, Fu Hao, who is mentioned in 170 to 180 Shang oracle bone inscriptions, and who was also renowned as a military general.[37] Along with bronze vessels, stoneware and pottery vessels, bronze weapons, jade figures and hair combs, and bone hairpins were found.[38][39][40] Historian Robert L. Thorp states that the large assortment of weapons and ritual vessels in her tomb correlate with the oracle bone accounts of her military career and involvement in Wu Ding's ritual ancestral sacrifices.[41]
The capital was the center of court life. Over time, court rituals to appease spirits developed, and in addition to his secular duties, the king would serve as the head of the ancestor worship cult. Often, the king would even perform oracle bone divinations himself, especially near the end of the dynasty. Evidence from excavations of the royal tombs indicates that royalty were buried with articles of value, presumably for use in the afterlife. Perhaps for the same reason, hundreds of commoners, who may have been slaves, were buried alive with the royal corpse.
A line of hereditary Shang kings ruled over much of northern China, and Shang troops fought frequent wars with neighboring settlements and nomadic herdsmen from the inner Asian steppes. The Shang king, in his oracular divinations, repeatedly shows concern about the fang groups, the barbarians living outside of the civilized tu regions, which made up the center of Shang territory.[clarification needed] In particular, the tufang group of the Yanshan region were regularly mentioned as hostile to the Shang.[19]
Apart from their role as the head military commanders, Shang kings also asserted their social supremacy by acting as the high priests of society and leading the divination ceremonies.[42] As the oracle bone texts reveal, the Shang kings were viewed as the best qualified members of society to offer sacrifices to their royal ancestors and to the high god Di, who in their beliefs was responsible for the rain, wind, and thunder.[42]
Religion[edit]
Chinese Shang dynasty bronze face masks, 16th–14th century BC
Shang religious rituals featured divination and sacrifice. The degree to which shamanism was a central aspect of Shang religion is a subject of debate.[43][44]
There were six main recipients of sacrifice: (1) Di, the High God, (2) nature powers like the sun and mountain powers, (3) former lords, deceased humans who had been added to the dynastic pantheon, (4) predynastic ancestors, (5) dynastic ancestors, and (6) dynastic ancestresses such as the concubines of a past emperor.[45]
The Shang believed that their ancestors held power over them and performed divination rituals to secure their approval for planned actions.[45] Divination involved cracking a turtle carapace or ox scapula to answer a question, and to then record the response to that question on the bone itself.[43] It is unknown what criteria the diviners used to determine the response, but it is believed to be the sound or pattern of the cracks on the bone.[citation needed]
The Shang also seem to have believed in an afterlife, as evidenced by the elaborate burial tombs built for deceased rulers. Often "carriages, utensils, sacrificial vessels, [and] weapons" would be included in the tomb.[46] A king's burial involved the burial of up to several hundred humans and horses as well to accompany the king into the afterlife, in some cases even numbering four hundred.[46] Finally, tombs included ornaments such as jade, which the Shang may have believed to protect against decay or confer immortality.
The Shang religion was highly bureaucratic and meticulously ordered. Oracle bones contained descriptions of the date, ritual, person, ancestor, and questions associated with the divination.[43] Tombs displayed highly ordered arrangements of bones, with groups of skeletons laid out facing the same direction.
Bronze working[edit]
Main article: Chinese ritual bronzes
Chinese bronze casting and pottery advanced during the Shang dynasty, with bronze typically being used for ritually significant, rather than primarily utilitarian, items. As far back as c. 1500 BC, the early Shang dynasty engaged in large-scale production of bronze-ware vessels and weapons.[47] This production required a large labor force that could handle the mining, refining, and transportation of the necessary copper, tin, and lead ores. This in turn created a need for official managers that could oversee both hard-laborers and skilled artisans and craftsmen.[47] The Shang royal court and aristocrats required a vast number of different bronze vessels for various ceremonial purposes and events of religious divination.[47] Ceremonial rules even decreed how many bronze containers of each type a nobleman or noblewoman of a certain rank could own. With the increased amount of bronze available, the army could also better equip itself with an assortment of bronze weaponry. Bronze was also used for the fittings of spoke-wheeled chariots, which appeared in China around 1200 BC.[42]
A Shang dynasty bronze ding vessel
The Shang dynasty Houmuwu Ding is the heaviest piece of bronze work found in China so far.
A late Shang dynasty bronze ding vessel with taotie motif
Bronze gū ritual wine vessel
Military[edit]
A bronze axe of the Shang dynasty
Bronze weapons were an integral part of Shang society.[48] Shang infantry were armed with a variety of stone and bronze weaponry, including máo (矛) spears, yuè (鉞) pole-axes, gē (戈) pole-based dagger-axes, composite bows, and bronze or leather helmets.[49][50]
The chariot first appeared in China around 1200 BC, during the reign of Wu Ding. There is little doubt that the chariot entered China through the Central Asia and the Northern Steppe, possibly indicating some form of contact with the Indo-Europeans.[51] Recent archaeological finds have shown that the late Shang used horses, chariots, bows and practiced horse burials that are similar to the steppe peoples to the west.[52] These influences led Christopher I. Beckwith to speculate that Indo-Europeans "may even have been responsible for the foundation of the Shang Dynasty", though he admits there is no direct evidence.[53] Oracle bone inscriptions suggest that the Shang used chariots in royal hunts and in battle only as mobile command vehicles.[54] In contrast, the western enemies of the Shang, such as the Zhou, began to use limited numbers of chariots in battle towards the end of the Shang period.[55]
Although the Shang depended upon the military skills of their nobility, Shang rulers could mobilize the masses of town-dwelling and rural commoners as conscript laborers and soldiers for both campaigns of defense and conquest.[56] Aristocrats and other state rulers were obligated to furnish their local garrisons with all necessary equipment, armor, and armaments. The Shang king maintained a force of about a thousand troops at his capital and would personally lead this force into battle.[57] A rudimentary military bureaucracy was also needed in order to muster forces ranging from three to five thousand troops for border campaigns to thirteen thousand troops for suppressing rebellions against the Shang dynasty.
Kings[edit]
See also: List of monarchs and The family tree of the Shang kings
The earliest records are the oracle bones inscribed during the reigns of the Shang kings from Wu Ding.[58] The oracle bones do not contain king lists, but they do record the sacrifices to previous kings and the ancestors of the current king, which follow a standard schedule that scholars have reconstructed. From this evidence, scholars have assembled the implied king list and genealogy, finding that it is in substantial agreement with the later accounts, especially for later kings.[59]
The Shang kings were referred to in the oracle bones by posthumous names. The last character of each name is one of the 10 celestial stems, which also denoted the day of the 10-day Shang week on which sacrifices would be offered to that ancestor within the ritual schedule. There were more kings than stems, so the names have distinguishing prefixes such as 大 Dà (greater), 中 Zhōng (middle), 小 Xiǎo (lesser), 卜 Bǔ (outer), 祖 Zǔ (ancestor) and a few more obscure names.[60]
The kings, in the order of succession derived from the oracle bones, are here grouped by generation. Later reigns were assigned to oracle bone diviner groups by Dong Zuobin:[61]
Generation
Older brothers
Main line of descent
Younger brothers
Diviner group
1 大乙 Dà Yǐ[i] [ii]
2 大丁 Dà Dīng[iii]
3 大甲 Dà Jiǎ 卜丙 Bǔ Bǐng[iv]
4 [v] 大庚 Dà Gēng 小甲 Xiǎo Jiǎ[vi]
5 大戊 Dà Wù 呂己 Lǚ Jǐ[vii]
6 中丁 Zhōng Dīng[viii] 卜壬 Bǔ Rén
7 戔甲 Jiān Jiǎ 祖乙 Zǔ Yǐ
8 祖辛 Zǔ Xīn 羌甲 Qiāng Jiǎ[ix]
9 祖丁 Zǔ Dīng 南庚 Nán Gēng[x]
10 象甲 Xiàng Jiǎ 盤庚 Pán Gēng 小辛 Xiǎo Xīn 小乙 Xiǎo Yǐ
11 武丁 Wǔ Dīng I
12 [xi] 祖庚 Zǔ Gēng 祖甲 Zǔ Jiǎ II
13 廩辛 Lǐn Xīn[xii] 康丁 Gēng Dīng III
14 武乙 Wǔ Yǐ IV
15 文武丁 Wén Wǔ Dīng
16 帝乙 Dì Yǐ[xiii] V
17 帝辛 Dì Xīn[xiv]
Notes
Jump up ^ The first king is known as Tang in the Historical Records. The oracle bones also identify six pre-dynastic ancestors: 上甲 Shàng Jiǎ, 報乙 Bào Yǐ, 報丙 Bào Bǐng, 報丁 Bào Dīng, 示壬 Shì Rén and 示癸 Shì Guǐ.
Jump up ^ There is no firm evidence of oracle bone inscriptions before the reign of Wu Ding.
Jump up ^ According to the Historical Records and the Mencius, Da Ding (there called Tai Ding) died before he could ascend to the throne. However in the oracle bones he receives rituals like any other king.
Jump up ^ According to the Historical Records, Bu Bing (there called Wai Bing) and 仲壬 Zhong Ren (not mentioned in the oracle bones) were younger brothers of Dai Ting and preceded Da Jia (also known as Dai Jia). However the Mencius, the Commentary of Zuo and the Book of History state that he reigned after Da Jia, as also implied by the oracle bones.
Jump up ^ The Historical Records include a king Wo Ding not mentioned in the oracle bones.
Jump up ^ The Historical Records have Xiao Jia as the son of Da Geng (known as Tai Geng) in the "Annals of Yin", but as a younger brother (as implied by the oracle bones) in the "Genealogical Table of the Three Ages".
Jump up ^ According to the Historical Records, Lü Ji (there called Yong Ji) reigned before Da Wu (there called Tai Wu).
Jump up ^ The kings from Zhong Ding to Nan Geng are placed in the same order by the Historical Records and the oracle bones, but there are some differences in genealogy, as described in the articles on individual kings.
Jump up ^ The status of Qiang Jia varies over the history of the oracle bones. During the reigns of Wu Ding, Di Yi and Di Xin, he was not included in the main line of descent, a position also held by the Historical Records, but in the intervening reigns he was included as a direct ancestor.
Jump up ^ According to the Historical Records, Nan Geng was the son of Qiang Jia (there called Wo Jia).
Jump up ^ The oracle bones and the Historical Records include an older brother 祖己 Zǔ Jǐ who did not reign.
Jump up ^ Lin Xin is named as a king in the Historical Records and oracle bones of succeeding reigns, but not those of the last two kings.[62]
Jump up ^ There are no ancestral sacrifices to the last two kings on the oracles bones, due to the fall of Shang. Their names, including the character 帝 Dì "emperor", come from the much later Bamboo Annals and Historical Records.[63]
Jump up ^ also referred to as Zhòu (紂), Zhòu Xīn (紂辛) or Zhòu Wáng (紂王) or by adding "Shāng" (商) in front of any of these names.
Descendants of the Shang royal family[edit]
After Shang's collapse, Zhou's rulers forcibly relocated "Yin diehards" (殷頑) and scattered them throughout Zhou territory.[64] Some surviving members of the Shang royal family collectively changed their surname from the ancestral name Zi (子) to the name of their fallen dynasty, Yin. The family retained an aristocratic standing and often provided needed administrative services to the succeeding Zhou dynasty. The Records of the Grand Historian states that King Cheng of Zhou, with the support of his regent and uncle, the Duke of Zhou, enfeoffed Weiziqi (微子啟), a brother of Di Xin, as the Duke of Song, with its capital at Shangqiu. This practice was referred to[by whom?] as 二王三恪. The Dukes of Song would maintain rites honoring the Shang kings until Qi conquered Song in 286 BC. Confucius was a descendant of the Shang Kings through the Dukes of Song.[65][66][67][need quotation to verify]
The Eastern Han dynasty bestowed the title of Duke of Song and "Duke Who Continues and Honours the Yin" (殷紹嘉公) upon Kong An (孔安 (東漢)) because he was part of the Shang dynasty's legacy.[68][69] This branch of the Confucius family is a separate branch from the line that held the title of Marquis of Fengsheng village and later Duke Yansheng.
Another remnant of the Shang established the vassal state of Guzhu (located in present-day Tangshan), which Duke Huan of Qi destroyed.[70][71][72] Many Shang clans that migrated northeast after the dynasty's collapse were integrated into Yan culture during the Western Zhou period. These clans maintained an élite status and continued practicing the sacrificial and burial traditions of the Shang.[19]
Both Korean and Chinese legends, including reports in the Book of Documents and the Bamboo Annals, state that a disgruntled Shang prince named Jizi, who had refused to cede power to the Zhou, left China with a small army. According to these legends, he founded a state known as Gija Joseon in northwest Korea during the Gojoseon period of ancient Korean history. However, scholars debate the historical accuracy of these legends.
See also[edit]
Chinese sovereign
Chinese mythology
Historical capitals of China
Women in ancient and imperial China
References[edit]
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Duan, Chang-Qun; Gan, Xue-Chun; Wang, Jeanny; Chien, Paul K. (1998), "Relocation of Civilization Centers in Ancient China: Environmental Factors", Ambio, 27 (7): 572–575, JSTOR 4314793.
Legge, James (translator) (1865), "The Annals of the Bamboo Books: The Dynasty of Shang", The Chinese Classics, volume 3, part 1, pp. 128–141.
Lee, Yuan-Yuan; Shen, Sin-yan (1999), Chinese Musical Instruments, Chinese Music Monograph Series, Chinese Music Society of North America Press, ISBN 1-880464-03-9.
Needham, Joseph (1971), Science and Civilization in China: Volume 4, Part 3, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-07060-7.
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Timperley, Harold J. (1936), The Awakening of China in Archaeology; Further Discoveries in Ho-Nan Province, Royal Tombs of the Shang Dynasty, Dated Traditionally from 1766 to 1122 B.C..
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Disha Vakani
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Disha Vakani
Vakani in 2012
Born
( 1978-08-17) 17 August 1978 (age 39)[1][2]
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India[3]
Residence
Kandivli, Mumbai, India
Nationality
Indian
Alma mater
Gujarat College, Ahmedabad
Occupation
Actress
Years active
1997–present
Known for
Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah
Spouse(s)
Mayur Padia (m. 2015)
Relatives
Bhim Vakani (father)
Mayur Vakani (brother)[4]
Website
twitter.com/dishavakani
Disha Vakani (born 17 August 1978)[1] is an Indian film and television actress. She made her career as a stage actress in Gujarati plays like Kamal Patel v/s Dhamal Patel and Lali Lila.[5] She has appeared in supporting roles in films like Devdas (2002) and Jodha Akbar (2008).[6] She plays lead role of Daya Jethalal Gada in SAB TV's comedy show Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah since 2008.[7][8][9]
Contents
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1 Personal life
2 Filmography
3 Television
4 Awards
5 References
6 External links
Personal life[edit]
Disha Vakani was born in a Gujarati family in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Disha graduated in the Dramatic arts from Gujarat College in Ahmedabad.[5] She married a Mumbai-based chartered accountant named Mayur Padia on 24 November 2015.[10][2] On November 30 2017, she gave birth to a girl. Her brother Mayur Vakani also plays her on-screen brother Sundar in television serial Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah.
Filmography[edit]
Year
Film
Role
Notes
1997 Kamsin:The Untouched
1999 Phool Aur Aag
2002 Devdas Sakhi 1
2005 Mangal Pandey: The Rising Yasmin
2006 Jaana... Let's Fall in Love Salma Disa
2008 Jodha Akbar Madhavi
2008 C Kkompany Widow of Railway Employee
2008 Love Story 2050 Maid
Television[edit]
Year
Show
Role
Notes
2004 Khichdi Guest appearance
2008-present Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah Daya Jethalal Gada/Dayaben
2014 C.I.D. Daya Jethalal Gada/Dayaben 4 Episodes - crossover
Awards[edit]
Year
Award
Category
Show
Result
2009 9th Indian Telly Awards Best Actor in a Comic Role – Female (Popular) Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah Won[5]
Indian Television Academy Awards Best Actress - Comedy
2010 3rd Zee Gold Awards Best Comic Actor (Popular)
10th Indian Telly Awards Best Actor in a Comic Role – Female (Popular)
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b "Daya Ben aka Disha Vakani turns a year older". The Times Of India. 17 August 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
^ Jump up to: a b "TV actress Disha Vakani ties the knot!". India Today. 24 November 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
Jump up ^ "Disha Vakani misses theatre". The Times of India. 5 Nov 2012. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
Jump up ^ "Unknown facts of Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah cast". The Times Of India. 30 January 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
^ Jump up to: a b c "I enjoy acting: Disha Vakani". Mumbai Mirror. 30 Dec 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
Jump up ^ Jhumari Nigam-Misra (12 November 2009). "Pretty women". Retrieved 14 May 2013.
Jump up ^ "Comedy Inc". 1 Jul 2010. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
Jump up ^ "Character's the KING". Indian Express. 25 Nov 2010. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
Jump up ^ "Funny female bone". The Times of India. 21 Jun 2009. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
Jump up ^ "Dayaben of 'Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah' aka Disha Vakani ties the knot". Daily News and Analysis. 25 November 2015.
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Archana Puran Singh (2001)
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Peter Weller
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Peter Weller
Weller at Paradise City Comic Con, December 2016
Born
Peter Frederick Weller
(1947-06-24) June 24, 1947 (age 70)
Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States
Alma mater
University of North Texas (B.A.)
Syracuse University (M.A.)
UCLA (Ph.D)
Occupation
Actor
television director
art historian
Years active
1973–present
Spouse(s)
Shari Stowe (m. 2006)
Peter Frederick Weller (born June 24, 1947) is an American film and stage actor, television director, and art historian.
Weller has appeared in more than 70 films and television series, including turns as the title character in RoboCop and its sequel RoboCop 2, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension and Star Trek Into Darkness, the follow-up to the 2009 reboot of the Star Trek franchise.[1] He has also appeared in such critically acclaimed films as Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite, the Oliver Stone-produced The New Age and David Cronenberg's adaptation of William Burroughs's novel Naked Lunch. He received an Academy Award nomination for his direction of the 1993 short Partners, in which he also acted. In television, he hosted the show Engineering an Empire on the History Channel. He also played Christopher Henderson in the fifth season of 24, Stan Liddy in the fifth season of the Showtime original series Dexter as well as Charles 'Charlie Barosky in 11 episodes in (Season 6) of Kurt Sutter 's long running Sons of Anarchy. Since 2012, Weller has been involved in the A&E (now Netflix) series Longmire both as a director and an actor. In 2017, Weller appeared on The Last Ship as Dr. Paul Vellek.
Contents
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1 Early life
2 Education
3 Career
3.1 Stage
3.2 Film
3.3 Television
3.4 Directing
3.5 Voice acting
4 Personal life
5 Awards and nominations
6 Filmography
6.1 Television
6.1.1 Television series
6.2 Film
7 References
8 External links
Early life[edit]
Weller was born June 24, 1947, in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, the son of Dorothy Jean (née Davidson), a homemaker, and Frederick Bradford Weller, a lawyer, federal judge, and career helicopter pilot for the United States Army.[2][3] Weller had a "middle-class Catholic" upbringing.[4] As a result of his father's army work, Weller spent many years abroad during his childhood. His family lived in Germany for several years before eventually moving to Texas, where he attended Alamo Heights High School in San Antonio.
Education[edit]
While enrolled at North Texas State University (now the University of North Texas), he played trumpet in one of the campus bands. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre[5] and began his acting career after attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.[citation needed]
In 2004, Weller completed a Master of Arts degree in Roman and Renaissance Art at Syracuse University, Florence Italy and occasionally taught courses in ancient history at the university.
In 2007, Weller began a Ph.D. at UCLA, in Italian Renaissance Art History.[6] In October 2013 he filed his dissertation,[7] entitled "Alberti Before Florence: Early Sources Informing Leon Battista Alberti’s De pictura", and was awarded his doctorate in 2014.[8][9]
Career[edit]
Stage[edit]
Weller's stage career began in the 1970s with appearances on Broadway in Full Circle, directed by Otto Preminger, and Summer Brave, William Inge's rewrite of his play Picnic. About this time, he became a member of the famed Actors Studio.[10]
In December 2006, Weller starred as architect Frank Lloyd Wright at Chicago's Goodman Theatre in Frank's Home, a new play by Richard Nelson.
Film[edit]
Weller appeared in the 1984 film Firstborn with Christopher Collet, where he played the abusive boyfriend of Collet's mother (played by Teri Garr).
Weller has appeared in more than 50 films and television series, including turns as the title characters in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, and blockbuster hits RoboCop and RoboCop 2,[1] as well as Star Trek Into Darkness in 2013. He has also appeared in such critically acclaimed films as Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite, the Oliver Stone-produced The New Age and David Cronenberg's movie of William Burroughs's novel Naked Lunch.
In 1995, he appeared in Screamers, a science-fiction film based on the short story "Second Variety" by Philip K. Dick and directed by Christian Duguay.
Television[edit]
In a 1977 episode of the television series Lou Grant, he played Oberster SA-Führer Donald Sterner/Stryker, a tragically disillusioned Jewish-American Neo-Nazi leader who later committed suicide off screen with his Colt .45 near the end of the episode when his heritage was discovered.
On television, he played the shuttle captain in the short-lived series Odyssey 5 and made guest appearances as Terran supremacist John Frederick Paxton in the Star Trek: Enterprise episodes "Demons", "Terra Prime" and in Fringe as the character Alistair Peck.
Weller was a contributor to the History Channel in several productions, credited as "Peter Weller, Syracuse University", where he was an adjunct faculty member. He was later a graduate student in art history at UCLA, focusing on the Italian Renaissance.
In 2005, Weller co-starred as the Captain in a made-for-television remake of The Poseidon Adventure.
Weller at the Texas Theater in Dallas, Texas, in 2012
In 2006, Weller joined the cast of 24 as terrorist collaborator Christopher Henderson.[11] Weller received a "cheer" in TV Guide's "Cheers & Jeers" section for his performance.
On January 15, 2010, Weller was seen in a teaser trailer for the companion documentary God of War: Unearthing the Legend that was featured in the game God of War III which Weller also hosted.[12]
On April 15, 2010, Weller guest-starred in an episode of the science fiction drama Fringe. He also guest-starred on the Showtime original series Dexter,[13] and had a guest appearance in the December 22, 2010 episode of Psych where he played villain "Yin"[14]
Since 2012, he is appearing in a recurring role as Lucien Connally on the crime drama television series Longmire.
In 2013, he played the part of the villain in the remake of the "Hookman" episode of the original Hawaii Five-O. The part was originally played in 1973 by J. J. Armes. In seasons six and seven of Sons of Anarchy, he plays the ruthless ex-cop Charles Barosky, a boss at the Stockton port and has dealings with the SAMCRO motorcycle club.
In 2017, Weller began appearing as Dr. Paul Vellek, a scientist, on The Last Ship.[15]
Directing[edit]
Weller has also directed various projects for television, including episodes of Homicide: Life on the Street, Monk and three episodes of the aforementioned Odyssey 5. He directed a 1997 adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Gold Coast starring David Caruso and Marg Helgenberger after previously starring in a version of Leonard's thriller Cat Chaser. He has directed eleven episodes of the series Sons of Anarchy, two in Season 4, titled "Dorylus" (air date 9/20/11) and "Hands", three in Season 5, titled "Authority Vested", "Toad's Wild Ride" and "Darthy", three in Season 6, titled "One One Six", "Los Fantasmas" and "Aon Rud Pearsanta" and three in Season 7, titled "Some Strange Eruption", "What a Piece of Work Is Man" and "Suits of Woe". He has directed one episode each season of Longmire since 2012.
Voice acting[edit]
Weller voiced the character of Bruce Wayne in the two-part 2013 animated adaptation of The Dark Knight Returns[16], and the titular character in the video game Wilson's Heart.[17]
Personal life[edit]
On June 24, 2006, he married longtime girlfriend and actress Shari Stowe at the Santa Maria Assunta church in Positano, Italy. It was also Weller's 59th birthday. Among the guests at the wedding were Carrie Fisher and Marg Helgenberger.[18]
Awards and nominations[edit]
(1988) Saturn Award for Best Actor – RoboCop
(1992) Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role – Naked Lunch
(1994) Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film – Partners- Nominated
(2002) Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male – Ivans XTC
Filmography[edit]
Television[edit]
Year
Title
Role
Notes
1973
The Man Without a Country
Lt. Fellows
1975
The Silence
Red Sash
1977
Lou Grant
Episode: "Nazi" - Donald Stryker
1983
Kentucky Woman
Deke Cullover
1983
Two Kinds of Love
Joe Farley
1986
Apology
Rad Hungate
1990
Women & Men: Stories of Seduction
Hobie
1990
Rainbow Drive
Mike Gallagher
1994
Partners
Doctor Short film
Nominated – Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
1994
The Substitute Wife
Martin Hightower
1994
Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
Uncredited
1995
Present Tense, Past Perfect
Charles
1997
End of Summer
Theo Remmington
1997
Gold Coast
— Director and executive producer
1998
Tower of the Firstborn
John Shannon
2000
Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula
Father Stefan
2005
The Poseidon Adventure
Captain Paul Gallico
Television series[edit]
Year
Title
Role(s)
Channel
Notes
1977
Lou Grant
Donald Stryker CBS Episode: "Nazi"
1995–1996
Homicide: Life on the Street
— NBC Director
Episodes: "Hate Crimes", "White Lies"
1997
Michael Hayes
— CBS Director
Episode: "The Doctor's Tale"
2002–2003
Odyssey 5
Chuck Taggart Space 19 (20) episodes
2005
Star Trek: Enterprise
John Frederick Paxton UPN Episodes:
"Demons"
"Terra Prime"
2006
Monk
– USA Network Director
Episode: "Mr. Monk, Private Eye"
2006
Monk
Actor playing Stottlemeyer USA Network Episode: "Mr. Monk and the Actor"
2006
24
Christopher Henderson Fox 11 episodes
2007
Las Vegas
— NBC Director
Episode: "A Cannon Carol"
2010
Fringe
Scientist Alistair Peck Fox Episode: "White Tulip"
2010
Psych
Mr. Yin USA Network Episode: "Yang 3 in 2D"
2010
Dexter
Stan Liddy Showtime 8 episodes
2013–2014
Sons of Anarchy
Charles Barosky FX 10 episodes
2012
House
Dr. Penza Fox Episode: "Post Mortem"
Also Director
2012
The Mob Doctor
— Fox Director
Episode: "Confessions"
2012–2017
Longmire
Lucian Connally A&E (TV channel)
Netflix Also director
4 episodes
2013
Hawaii Five-0
Curt Stoner CBS Episode: "Hookman"
2013–2018
Hawaii Five-0
— CBS Director
9 episodes
2014
The Strain
— FX Director
3 episodes
2014–2015
Under the Dome
— CBS Director
Episode: "The Red Door" (2014)
Episode: "But I'm Not" (2015)
2015–2016
The Last Ship
— TNT Director
4 episodes
2015
Tyrant
— FX Director
Episode: "Zanjir"
2015
Sleepy Hollow
— Fox Director
Episode: "I, Witness"
Film[edit]
Year
Title
Role
Notes
1979
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
Joe Le Fors
1980
Just Tell Me What You Want
Steven Routledge
1982
Shoot the Moon
Frank Henderson
1983
Of Unknown Origin
Bart Hughes Paris Film Festival for Best Actor
1984
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Buckaroo Banzai
1984
Firstborn
Sam
1986
A Killing Affair
Baston Morris
1987
RoboCop
Officer Alex J. Murphy/RoboCop Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Actor
1988
The Tunnel
Juan Pablo Castel
1988
Shakedown
Roland Dalton
1989
Leviathan
Steven Beck
1989
Cat Chaser
George Moran
1990
RoboCop 2
RoboCop
1991
Road to Ruin
Jack Sloan
1991
Naked Lunch
William "Bill" Lee Nominated – Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
1992
Fifty/Fifty
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Jump up ^ "Peter Weller Biography (1947–)". Filmreference.com. 1947-06-24. Retrieved 2010-10-07.
Jump up ^ "Obituaries". pcgazette.com. Archived from the original on 2003-03-20. Retrieved 2010-10-07.
Jump up ^ "People Profile | Peter Weller". Cigar Aficionado. 1996-03-01. Retrieved 2010-10-07.
Jump up ^ "2014 Emerald Eagle Honors Honorees". University of North Texas. Retrieved February 8, 2014.
Jump up ^ "An interview with Peter Weller". Theflorentine.net. 2007-10-18. Retrieved 2010-10-07.
Jump up ^ Ebiri, Bilge (20 May 2013). "Peter Weller on Star Trek, Getting His Ph.D., and Defending J.J. Abrams". vulture.com. Retrieved 2013-08-21. When is your dissertation due? 'I file it in October.'
Jump up ^ "Ph.D. Recipients". 2014. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
Jump up ^ "STLV: Pegg: Scotty Not A 'Clown' – Talks Accent & Star Trek 2016 + Weller: Marcus Not 'Villain' + more". TrekMovie.com. 3 August 2014. Yes you read that sentence right: Dr. Peter Weller, who recently completed a PhD in Italian history. And he didn’t let you forget it, including correcting one fan who addressed him as “Mister Weller.”
Jump up ^ "Movies & TV: Peter Weller". The New York Times. Retrieved May 9, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Peter Weller Joins Showtime's 'Dexter'".
Jump up ^ Chester, Nick. "Awesome: RoboCop to Host God of War Documentary".
Jump up ^ "Peter Weller Joins Showtime's Dexter".
Jump up ^ "'Psych' Season Finale Recap: Who Was Yin?".
Jump up ^ "The Last Ship Exclusive: Peter Weller Gets Tom Ready to Fight". 25 August 2017.
Jump up ^ "Animated THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS Cast Announced".
Jump up ^ "Wilson's Heart is a bold VR mash-up of game styles and film genres".
Jump up ^ "'Robocop' Star Weds in Italy". Zap2It. June 29, 2006. Retrieved February 8, 2014.
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"RoboCop, PhD" Wired News
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