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Chronology of the Chinese.
4.SHANG KE (Continued).
Names of the Sovereigns.
15. 南庚 Nankăng.
16.Yangkeň.
17. 盤庚 Pwankăng.
18. Seaousin.
19. Z Seaouyeih.
20. T Wooting.
21. 租庚 Tsookáng.
祖甲
22. Tsookeǎ.
23. 廩辛 Linsin.
Kǎngting.
Wooyeih.
24.
25.
26.
T Taeting.
27. Z Teyeih.
28.Chowsin.
MARCH,
Cotemporary Chinese Events.
The seventeenth emperor of this
dynasty, Pwankăng,-having re- moved his capital to Yin, 改國 號日殷 kae koǒ haou, yuè
yin,-changed the name of the nation, and called it Yin.
The conduct of the twenty-fifth
emperor is most notable: the his- torian thus describes it:
「武乙無道爲偶人謂 之天神與
與之博合
合人 爲行天神不
神不勝乃僇 辱之
Wooyeih, devoid of reason, made
images, called them gods, and gambled with them, having order. ed a man to play for them; the
gods, being unable to win, he dis- graced them,
Tanke, the infamous fe-
male companion of Chowsin.
truth, and acted the part of good men; but the great mass of the people were vicious and miserable in the extreme.
Of the rulers none could be more wicked than Wooyeih. Having made his images of clay in the shape of human beings, dignified them with the name of gods, overcome them at gambling, and set them aside in disgrace, he then, in order to complete his folly, made leathern bags and filled them with blood and sent them up into the air, exclaiming, when his arrows hit them and the blood poured down, I have shot heaven-i..e. I have killed the gods of heaven, Afterwards, when abroad hunting, he was suddenly overtaken by a storm and killed by a thunder-bolt. This is the first instance of idolatry recorded in the Kang Keën E Che.
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