{{Infobox royalty |image = |name = Bu Bing<br/>卜丙 |family_name = Zǐ (子) |clan_name = |given_name = Shèng (胜) |succession = King of the Shang dynasty |reign = {{circa|1587 B. C.}}<ref>Library of Congress. (2020). Shang Tang, Emperor of China, approximately 1670 B.C.-approximately 1587 B.C. 商汤, Emperor of China, approximately 1670 B.C.-approximately 1587 B.C. LC Linked Data Service. https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016039306.html</ref> - ? |predecessor = King Tang |successor = Da Geng |temple name = |posthumous name = Bu Bing (卜丙) |father = King Tang }}
thumb | right | Oracle symbols of the Shang Dynasty '''Bu Bing''' ({{zh|t=|||p=Bǔ Bǐng|w=Pu-Ping|c=卜丙}}) or '''Wai Bing''' ({{zh|t=|||c=外丙|p=Wài Bǐng|w=Wai-Ping}}) (born '''Zǐ Shèng''' {{zh|t=|||c=子勝|p=Zǐ Shèng|w=Tzu-Sheng}}), was the second king of the Shang dynasty, according to the ''Records of the Grand Historian''.
In the ''Records of the Grand Historian'', he was listed by Sima Qian as the second Shang king, succeeding his father Tang, following the earlier death of his elder brother Tai Ding. He was enthroned in the year of Yihai ({{lang|zh|乙亥}}), with Yi Yin as his prime minister and Bo ({{lang|zh|亳}}) as his capital. He ruled for about 2 years before his death. He was given the posthumous name Wai Bing and was succeeded by his younger brother.<ref name="BaiShouyi"> {{cite book |last=Bai |first=Shouyi |title=An Outline History of China |year=2002 |publisher=Foreign Language Press |location=Beijing |isbn=7-119-02347-0}} </ref><ref name="chinaKnowledge"> {{cite web |url =http://chinaknowledge.de/History/Myth/shang-rulers.html |title = The Shang Dynasty Rulers |access-date = August 7, 2007 |publisher = China Knowledge }} </ref><ref name="uniIndiana"> {{cite web|url=http://www.indiana.edu/~g380/Kings.pdf |title=Shang Kingship And Shang Kinship |access-date=August 7, 2007 |publisher=Indiana University |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080409215121/http://www.indiana.edu/~g380/Kings.pdf |archive-date=April 9, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Oracle script inscriptions, on bones unearthed at Yinxu, alternatively record that he was the fourth Shang king, the second son of Da Ding, given the posthumous name "Bu Bing" ({{lang|zh|卜丙}}), and succeeded by Da Geng.<ref name="chinaKnowledge" /><ref name="uniIndiana" /> The substitution of ''Wai'' ({{lang|zh|外}}) for ''Bu'' ({{lang|zh|卜}}) is a scribal transmission error dating to antiquity.<ref name="Hopkins"> {{cite journal|last=Hopkins|first=L.C.|page=74|title=The Sovereigns of the Shang Dynasty, B.C. 1766–1154|date=1917|journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland|publisher=Cambridge University Press|jstor=25189506}} </ref>
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