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611:, which describes the inauguration ritual of King Kang. In it, Lord Shao can be seen to command great respect at court. He is listed first in each enumeration of participants, gives orders to other functionaries to help prepare for the proceedings, performs ritual actions rivaled only by the new king and the Master Ritualist, and reads the command of accession to the king. 508:, allows for the reading that the Duke of Zhou had performed a sacrifice to the ancestral spirits to divine whether he was their chosen successor to the ailing King Wu. The traditional reading interprets this passage to indicate the Duke of Zhou offering his life if the king's could be spared. In both readings, this ceremony is suggested by the other two Ducal Ministers. 524:
With the violence quelled, King Wu's son, now three years less young, along with the victorious Lord Shao and Duke of Zhou, entered into a triple alliance, sharing power delicately between them. Lord Shao was given power over the lands to the west of the twin capitals Feng and Hao, on the Wei river
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Although the two texts are clearly closely related, which is the response to the other is debated. And whether they are read from a traditional or revisionist viewpoint, regardless of the personal, political, or philosophical motives behind either man's words, soon thereafter the young King Cheng
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flows only to the eldest son, and the Duke of Zhou calling upon a panoply of worthy ministers of yore to support his platform of how crucial capable ministers are to good government, quoting Lord Shao's own words back at him about how the two of them would work together, asserting that heaven's
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Traditionally, the Duke of Zhou is considered to have assumed regency rather than kingship. In any case, the son of the vanquished Shang king and affiliated groups, possibly aided by Zhou royal brothers, took the opportunity to rebel in an action called the
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Two years after the conquest, before Zhou power had been completely consolidated, King Wu was dead. His son was considered too young to be fit to rule, and the Duke of Zhou unilaterally took power. The preceding
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was set in, the word translated as "brother" could also have referred to any elder male member of same generation in the kin group, suggesting that "cousin" could be a plausible reading.
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claims that Lord Shao lived over a hundred years, and epigraphic records securely dateable to the middle years of King Kang's reign tend to support rather than refute this claim.
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The language is archaic, and admits multiple readings. The traditional reading takes into account a cryptic statement that Lord Shao was unhappy at court to read
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Shaughnessy, Edward L. (1993). "The Duke of Zhou's Retirement in the East and the Beginnings of the Ministerial–Monarch Debate in Chinese Political Philosophy".
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All transmitted sources charge the brothers of King Wu who had been appointed to govern the Shang remnants with joining the rebellion. The excavated text
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ancestral temple. With Shao in the first position, prior to the lineages founded by the sons of King Wen she reasons this lineage was founded earlier.
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where the Duke of Zhou addresses Lord Shao as his brother rests on the assumption that the word "brother" as carried by the parallel passage in the
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Khayutina, Maria (2015). "King Wen, a Settler of Disputes or Judge? The "Yu–Rui case" in the Historical Records and its Historical Background".
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Khayutina, Maria (2008). "Western "Capitals" of the Western Zhou Dynasty: Historical Reality and Its Reflections Until the Time of Sima Qian".
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mandate had come jointly to the Zhou as a group, and ending with an impassioned plea where he addresses Lord Shao as his brother.
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stepped fully into his authority, and the Duke of Zhou disappeared from the political scene for the remainder of his life.
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as a plea from Lord Shao to remain in his position and help coadminister government affairs until the new king is ready.
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called Lord Shao half-brother to the Duke of Zhou in a 1989 paper. Maria Khayutina, writing in 2015, reads the
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Gren, Ribbing (2016). "The Qinghua "Jinteng" Manuscript: What it Does Not Tell Us about the Duke of Zhou".
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relate to this period of time, and two in particular relate to each other and the power struggle at court.
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states that the Zhou governors were killed by the rebel forces, but does not provide their identities.
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An alternative reading pits the two chapters against one another, with Lord Shao highlighting how the
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Gassmann, Robert H. (2012). ""Fathers" Galore: Comments on a Suffix in Ancient Chinese Names".
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in the received literature. Gassmann posited in 2012 that during the time period the
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Lord Shao served four generations of Zhou kings: King Wen, King Wu, King Cheng, and
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by a concubine. Modern scholarship has not significantly modified this view.
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is then read as an exhortation to the new king to do a good job.
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Shaughnessy, Edward L. (1999). "Western Zhou History". In
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