Jin of Xia
{{Infobox royalty
| name = Jin
{{linktext|廑}}
| succession = King of the Xia dynasty
| reign = {{circa | 1810 BC | 1789 BC }}
| predecessor = Jiong
| successor = Kong Jia
| father = Jiong
}}
Jǐn (廑) was the 13th king of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty of China. His other name is Yinjia (胤甲).
{{Cite book |
title = Chinese Archaeological Abstracts | volume= 2: prehistoric to Western Zhou |
editor1 = Albert E. Dien | editor2 = Jeffrey K. Riegel | editor3 = Nancy Thompson Price |
publisher = Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles | date = 1985
}}Records of the Grand Historian, translated by Burton Watson (Columbia University, Revised Edition, 1993)
Reign
Jin probably ruled for about 21 years. His father was King Jiong of Xia and his name means "shack".
According to the Bamboo Annals, Jin moved the capital to 'Western He' (西河).Bamboo Annals In the fourth year of Jin's reign, he missed his former hometown and made the music of West Sound.James Legge (1865), [https://archive.org/details/chineseclassics07legggoog The Chinese Classics, Volume 3, part 1.]
In the eighth year of his reign, it is recorded in the Bamboo Annals that ten suns rose in the sky causing a very serious drought.古本竹書紀年,夏記,"天有祅孽，十日並出"
One of his vassals, Ji Fan (己樊), was the leader of Kunwu (昆吾) clan. Originally he was assigned to the land of Wei, but he moved his capital from Wei to Xu.
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