He Dan Jia [SEP] noble family
He Dan Jia
Jian Jia or He Dan Jia () was a Shang dynasty King of China.
In the "Records of the Grand Historian" he was listed by Sima Qian as the twelfth Shang king, succeeding his father Wai Ren. He was enthroned in the year of Gengshen (Chinese: ) with Ao () as his capital. In the first year of his reign, he moved his capital to Xiang (). In the third year of his reign, his Minister Pengbo (Chinese: )
Jia Dan
Jia Dan () (730 – October 27, 805), courtesy name Dunshi (敦詩), formally Duke Yuanjing of Wei (魏元靖公), was a Chinese scholar-official, general, geographer, and cartographer from Cangzhou, Hebei during the Tang Dynasty.
Background.
Jia Dan was born in 730, during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong. His family was from Cang Prefecture (滄州, in modern Cangzhou, Hebei) and traced its ancestry to the Han Dynasty official Jia Yi, through