Editing Gonghe Regency (section)

===Interpretations===
According to the [[Han dynasty]] historian [[Sima Qian]], who interpreted ''gonghe'' as 'joint harmony' in his ''[[Records of the Grand Historian]]'': during the Gonghe Regency the Zhou dynasty was ruled jointly by two dukes, the {{ill|Duke Ding of Zhou|zh|周定公}} and the {{ill|Duke Mu of Shao|zh|召穆公}}, hence effectively transforming the state into a [[coregency]].<ref>Sima Qian, ''Records of the Grand Historian'' '''4''':144</ref>

Later discoveries proved this incorrect. According to the ''[[Bamboo Annals]]'', an archaeologically unearthed text discovered in antiquity but postdating Sima Qian, the Gonghe Regency was a period in which the Zhou dynasty was ruled by a single person—Gongbo He ({{lang|zh|共伯和}}; Elder He of the Gong lineage).<ref name="Chen and Pines 2018" /> This reading has been fully corroborated by an independent archaeologically unearthed text known as the ''[[Tsinghua Bamboo Slips#Volume two|Xinian]]'' (繫年).<ref name="Chen and Pines 2018">
{{cite journal
|first2=Yuri |last2=Pines
|author1=Chen Minzhen
|pages=1–27 (at pp 16–17)
|title=Where is King Ping? The History and Historiography of the Zhou Dynasty's Eastward Relocation 
|journal=Asia Major
|year=2018
|volume='''31'''.1
|issue=1
|publisher=Academica Sinica
|jstor=26571325
|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26571325
|access-date=2022-06-15}}</ref>