Template:Redirect Template:Infobox royalty King Ding of Zhou (Template:Zh), personal name Ji Yu, was a king of the Chinese Zhou dynasty.<ref>Sima Qian: Records of the Grand Historian</ref> He was a son of King Qing and brother of his predecessor, King Kuang.<ref>Michael Loewe and Edward L. Shaughnessy: The Cambridge history of ancient China: from the origins of civilization to 221 B.C. The Cambridge History of Ancient China provides a survey of the institutional and cultural history of pre-imperial China.</ref>
He sent an official named Wangsun Man (王孫滿) to present gifts to the Chu army.<ref>Wen Fong: The Great Bronze Age of China: An Exhibition from the People's Republic of China. New York, 1980.</ref> He met King Zhuang of Chu.<ref>Chinese bronzes: ferocious beauty by Wangheng Chen. Singapore. Page 140Template:Dead link.</ref><ref>Constance A. Cook: Defining Chu: Image And Reality In Ancient China</ref>
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- Queen Ding of Zhou, of the Jiang clan of Qi ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), possibly a daughter of Duke Hui of Qi; married in 603 BC
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- Prince Yi ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}; d. 572 BC), ruled as King Jian of Zhou from 585 to 572 BC
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