King Xuan of Zhou
King Xuan of Zhou, personal name Ji Jing, was king of the Chinese Zhou dynasty; his reign has been reconstructed to be 827/25 – 782 BC. He worked to restore royal authority after the Gonghe Regency. He fought the "Western Barbarians" and another group on the Huai River to the southeast. In the ninth year of his reign, he called a meeting of all the lords. Later he intervened militarily in succession struggles in the states of Lu, Wey and Qi. Sima Qian said "from this time on, the many lords mostly rebelled against royal commands." According to Zhang Shoujie's annotation Correct Meanings to Sima's Shiji, King Xuan is said to have killed the innocent Du Bo and according to tradition was himself killed by an arrow fired by Du Bo's ghost. His son King You would the last king of the Western Zhou.
The Stone Drums of Qin were long mistakenly ascribed to King Xuan.
Family
Queens:- Queen Xian of Zhou, of the Lü lineage of the Jiang clan of Qi, known as Queen Jiang; a daughter of Duke Wu of Qi; married in 826 BC; the mother of Crown Prince Gongsheng
- Lady Hou
- Nü Jiu
- Crown Prince Gongsheng, ruled as King You of Zhou
- Prince Yuchen, claimed the throne as King Xie of Zhou
- Prince Changfu, ruled as the Marquis of Yang