Religion

Religion

The Shang Dynasty is the second of the Three Holy Dynasties of Chinese historiography. It is said to have been founded by Tang the Great, the last ruler was the depraved King Zhou. Since all the events of this historical period, reported by sources written many hundred years later, cannot be taken seriously, many scholars at the end of the 19th century thought the Shang Dynasty to be purely mythical. Only the discovering of oracle bones at the begin of the 20th century and the deciphering of the incised inscriptions proved that at least the last part of the Shang was indeed a historical period.But the kings of Yin were not the centre of the Chinese world. Around them, many other cities and states (the ten thousand states, presented a world full of cultural diversity of which the state of the rulers at a city discovered at Erligang were dominating the ancient Central Plain for a certain time. Later, when the kings of Yin (known as the ruling house of Shang) entered history, they were only one royal house that had to fight for dominance with many other cities between modern Gansu and Shandong, Hebei and Jiangxi.
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