at the Royal Temple. Angered by the presence of a wild chicken standing on one of the ceremonial bronze vessels, he condemned his vassals and wrote a proclamation called "Day of the Supplementary Sacrifice of Gao Zong" (). The Book of Documents passage in question is attributed to Zu Ji, reflecting a different tradition of vital dates for that individual. According to the Bamboo Annals, the thirty-second year of his reign, he sent troops to Guifang () and after three years of fighting he conquered it. The Di () and Qiang () immediately sent envoys to Shang to negotiate. His armies went on to conquer Dapeng () in the forty-third year of his reign, and Tunwei () in the fiftieth year of his reign. Exactly how this is related to the campaigns in the oracle bone divinations is unclear, where the Gui Fang appears once, but the Gong Fang and Tu Fang campaigns have hundreds of divinations. He died in the fifty-ninth year of his reign according to all the sources available, none of which are contemporary. Widely regarded in later tradition as one of the best kings of the Shang dynasty, he was given the posthumous name Wu Ding () and was succeeded by his son Zu Geng (). References Shang dynasty kings 13th-century BC births 12th-century BC Chinese monarchs 13th-century BC Chinese monarchs