{{Short description|King of Shang dynasty}} {{other uses|Dading (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox royalty | image = | name = Da Ding<br/>大丁 | issue = Tai Jia | family_name = Zi (子) | given_name = ''unknown'' | title = | reign = {{circa|1587 BC}}<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> - ? | temple name = Tài Dīng (太丁) | father = Tang | spouse = Bi Wu ({{lang|zh|妣戊}})<ref>甲骨文合集 ''Heji'' 36196丙.2：戊戌卜卜王賓大丁爽妣戊翌日無尤</ref> }} '''Da Ding''' ({{zh|c=大丁|p=Dà Dīng}}) or '''Tai Ding''' ({{zh|c=太丁|p=Tài Dīng}}) was the eldest son of King Tang, but sources are conflicted as to whether he actually succeeded his father as the second king of the Shang dynasty or not.
== Records == In the ''Records of the Grand Historian'' he was said by Sima Qian to have died at an early age without succeeding his father King Tang. He was given the posthumous name Tai Ding (Chinese: {{lang|zh|太丁}}) and the throne passed to his younger brother Wai Bing and later to his own son Tai Jia.<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 |accessdate = August 7, 2007 |author = |last = |first = |date = |year = |publisher = China Knowledge |pages = |doi = |archiveurl = |archivedate = |quote = }}</ref><ref name="uniIndiana">{{cite web |url =http://www.indiana.edu/~g380/Kings.pdf |title = Shang Kingship and Shang Kinship |accessdate = August 7, 2007 |author = |publisher = Indiana University |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080409215121/http://www.indiana.edu/~g380/Kings.pdf |archivedate = April 9, 2008 }}</ref>
== Nicknames ==
Although not well known he is not unknown in this day and age, often in China today he is called by the name "遺子" pronounced Yí zǐ meaning forgoten son because his father is well known but he is not.
== Succession ==
Inscriptions on oracle bones unearthed at Yinxu record that he was the second Shang king, given the posthumous name Da Ding (Chinese: {{lang|zh|大丁}}), and succeeded by his sons Da Jia (Tai Jia) and Bu Bing (Wai Bing).<ref name="chinaKnowledge" /><ref name="uniIndiana" />
== Death ==
Historian Simon Montefiore in his book The World: A Family History of Humanity, refers to an inscription that refers to Da Ding's death: "Da Jia and Zu Yi, {{not a typo|100 cups}} of wine, 100 qiang prisoners, 300 head of cattle."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sebag Montefiore |first=Simon |title=The world: a family history of humanity |date=2023 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |isbn=978-0-525-65953-2 |location=New York |pages=70 (Portuguese Edition) |language=English}}</ref>
==Notes== {{reflist}}
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Category:Kings of the Shang dynasty Category:Asian people whose existence is disputed