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'Pán Gēng' (Chinese: 盤庚, born 'Zi Xun', Chinese: 子旬) was a Shang Dynasty King of China. He is best known for having moved the capital of the Shang Dynasty to Yīn.^[1]
In the ''Records of the Grand Historian'' he was listed by Sima Qian as the nineteenth Shang king, succeeding his older brother Yang Jia (Chinese: 陽甲). He was enthroned in the year of Bingyan (Chinese: 丙寅) with Yan (Chinese: 奄) as his capital.
In the 7th year of his regime, the Ying vassal (Chinese: 应侯) came to Yan to pay homage to him.
In the 14 years of his regime, he moved his capital from Yan to Beimeng (Chinese: 北蒙), and renamed it Yin (Chinese: 殷); henceforth the Shang dynasty was also called the Yin Dynasty. In the 15th year of his regime, he reviewed his army at the new capital.
In the 19th year of his regime, he assigned his minister Fen (Chinese: 邠侯) in Yawei (Chinese: 亚圉).
He ruled about 28 years according to both the ''Bamboo Annals'' and the ''Records of the Grand Historian'', was given the posthumous name Pán Gēng and was succeeded by his younger brother Xiao Xin (Chinese: 小辛).
Oracle script inscriptions on bones unearthed at Yinxu alternatively record that he was the eighteenth Shang king, succeeding his older brother Xiang Jia (Chinese: 象甲).^[2][3]
In the ''Classic of History'', there exists a chapter entitled "Pán Gēng", which tradition holds to have been a speech by this king; however, the language in it is so different from that of Pán Gēng's time that it is most likely not a product of his era.^[4]

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1. An Outline History of China, , Shouyi, Bai, Foreign Language Press, 2002,
2. The Shang Dynasty Rulers
3. Shang Kingship And Shang Kinship
4. The Cambridge History of Ancient China – from the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C., , Michael, Loewe, Cambridge University Press, 1999,