King Xuan of Zhou

King Xuan of Zhou, personal name Ji Jing, was the eleventh king of the Chinese Zhou dynasty. Estimated dates of his reign are 827/25–782 BC.

He worked to restore royal authority after the Gonghe regency. He fought the "Western Barbarians" (probably Xianyun) and another group on the Huai River to the southeast. In his ninth year 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 says "from this time on, the many lords mostly rebelled against royal commands." According to Zhang Shoujie's annotation Correct Meanings to Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, 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 was the last king of the Western Zhou.

The Stone Drums of Qin were long mistakenly ascribed to King Xuan.

Family

 * Queen Xian of Zhou, of the Lü lineage of the Jiang clan of Qi (週獻後 姜姓 呂氏), 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 (女鳩)
 * Crown Prince Gongsheng (太子宮涅; d. 771 BC), ruled as King You of Zhou from 781 to 771 BC
 * Prince Yuchen (王子餘臣; d. 750 BC), claimed the throne as King Xie of Zhou from 770 to 750 BC
 * Prince Changfu (王子長父), ruled as the Marquis of Yang