{{Infobox royalty | image = | name = Zu Ding<br/>祖丁 | issue = Yang Jia, Pan Geng, Xiao Xin, Xiao Yi | family_name = Zi (子) | clan_name = | given_name = Xin (新) | predecessor = Wo Jia | successor = Nan Geng | title = King of Shang dynasty | reign = | temple name = | father = Zu Xin | posthumous name = Zu Ding | spouse = Bi Ji ({{lang|zh|妣己}})<ref>甲骨文合集 ''Heji'' 23330.2：己丑卜尹貞王賓祖丁爽妣己翌無尤</ref><ref>甲骨文合集 ''Heji'' 23328.2：X卯卜尹貞王賓祖丁爽妣己劦X口無尤</ref> }}

'''Zu Ding''' ({{zh|祖丁}}), personal name Zi Xin, was a king of the Chinese Shang dynasty.

==Records== In the ''Records of the Grand Historian'' he was listed by Sima Qian as the sixteenth Shang king, succeeding his uncle Wo Jia ({{lang|zh|沃甲}}). He was enthroned in the year of Dingwei ({{lang|zh|丁未}}) with Bi ({{lang|zh|庇}}) as his capital. He ruled for about 32 years before his death. He was given the posthumous name Zu Ding and was succeeded by his cousin Nan Geng ({{lang|zh|南庚}}).<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 oracle bones unearthed at Yinxu alternatively record that he was the fifteenth Shang king.<ref name="chinaKnowledge" /><ref name="uniIndiana" />

==Attempts at chronological dating== The Xia–Shang–Zhou Chronology Project, a broad Chinese academic enquiry, published results in 2000 placing Zu Ding as a contemporary of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten &mdash; the latter's reign beginning later than Zu Ding's, but both terminating in the mid-1330s BCE.<ref>{{cite book|title=Taiping Yulan|language=zh|editor=Li Fang| date=983}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

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