Archaeological work at the Ruins of Yin ( near modern day Anyang ), which has been identified as the last Shang capital, uncovered eleven major Yin royal tombs and the foundations of palaces and ritual sites, containing weapons of war and remains from both animal and human sacrifices.

Today, Xiǎotún at Anyang is thus also known as the Ruins of Yin, or Yinxu.

Ancient Chinese Writing, Oracle Bone Inscriptions from the Ruins of Yin.

Ancient Chinese Writing, Oracle Bone Inscriptions from the Ruins of Yin.

The oracle script inscriptions on the bones unearthed at Yinxu ( Ruins of Yin ) alternatively record that he was the twenty-first Shang king .< ref name =" uniIndiana ">

Bronzed shells were found in the Ruins of Yin, the old capital of Shang Dynasty ( BC 1500-BC 1046 ).

The second set – from the later Shang or Yin ( 殷 ) period – is at Anyang, in modern-day Henan, which has been confirmed as the last of the Shang's nine capitals ( c. 1300 – 1046 BC ).

The term Yin Dynasty has been synonymous with the Shang dynasty in history, although it has lately been used to specifically refer to the latter half of the Shang Dynasty.

Yin and yang are ancient Chinese concepts which can be traced back to the Shang dynasty ( 1600 – 1100 BC ).

Although tradition holds that in the Zhou, the year began on the new moon which preceded the winter solstice, the Spring and Autumn Annals seem to indicate that ( in Lu at least ) the Yin calendar ( the calendar used in Shang dynasty, with years beginning on the first new moon after the winter solstice ) was in use until the middle of the 7th century, and that the beginning of the year was shifted back one month around 650 BC.

* 1300 BC: The legendary King Pangeng moved the capital of Shang Dynasty to Yin.

The Shang Dynasty ( Chinese: 商朝 ; pinyin: shāng cháo ) or Yin Dynasty ( 殷代 ; pinyin: yīn dài ), according to traditional historiography, ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC, succeeding the Xia Dynasty and followed by the Zhou Dynasty.

In Japan and Korea, the Shang are still referred to almost exclusively as the Yin ( In ) dynasty.

Sima Qian's " Annals of the Yin " begins by describing the predynastic founder of the Shang lineage, Xie ( 偰 ) — also appearing as Qi ( 契 ) — as having been miraculously conceived when Jiandi, a wife of Emperor Ku, swallowed an egg dropped by a black bird.

According to the Records, the Shang moved their capital five times, with the final move to Yin in the reign of Pan Geng inaugurating the golden age of the dynasty.

Some surviving members of the Shang royal family collectively changed their surname from the ancestral name Zi ( 子 ) to the name of their fallen dynasty, Yin.

The site of Yin ( city ) | Yin, the capital ( 1350 – 1046 BC ) of the Shang Dynasty, also called Yin Dynasty

* 1300 BC — Pangeng moved the capital of Shang Dynasty to Yin.

* 1350 BC — Yin becomes the new capital of the Shang dynasty.

* Anyang was the capital during the Yin period of the Shang Dynasty ( estimated between 1600 BC and 1046 BC ): called Yin ( 殷, pinyin: Yīn ).

The I Ching ( Book of Changes ) is an ancient text in China, dating back to the Shang Dynasty ( Bronze Age 1700BC-1050BC ), and utilizes a system of Yin and Yang which it places into Hexagrams for the purposes of divination.

Numerous bronze vessels preserved from the later Shang dynasty ( also known as Yin ) include many which were apparently used to warm wine or other alcoholic beverages.

* Yinxu, the ruins of the Shang Dynasty capital Yin near today's Anyang, China

Capital: Yinxu, near Anyang ( Yin Dynasty period )

According to the Han Shu 21a, 973, for the moment of unification the Middle kingdoms had 6 different calendars: those of the mythological progenitors Yellow Emperor ( 黄帝曆 ) and Zhuanxu ( 顓頊曆 ); of the dynasties Xia ( 夏曆 ), Yin ( 殷曆 ), and Zhou ( 周曆 ), and of the Zhou Dynasty state of Lu ( 鲁曆 ).

* Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty deposes his wife, Guo Shentong, as empress, and creates his consort Yin Lihua empress in her place.

* Luo Yin, statesman and poet of the Tang Dynasty ( born 833 )

* Yin Hao, politician of the Jin Dynasty

* April 4 – Liu Yin, Tang Dynasty leader

A Liao Dynasty polychrome wood-carved statue of Guan Yin, Shanxi Province, China, ( 907 – 1125 )

An ancient city, dating from at least the Shang ( Yin ) dynasty ( 1600 ?- 1046 BCE ), Changzhi was known as Luan until 1912.

The final ( and most important ) move to Yin in 1350 BC led to the dynasty's golden age.

* Shen Yin Shu, general of Chu, ( 506 BC )

File: Celtic Gold-plated Disc, Auvers-sur-Oise, Val-d ' Oise ( Detail 01 ). jpg | Yin yang swirls on a Celtic gold-plated bronze disc ( early 4th century BC )

* Chen Sheng ( 陳勝 ) as King Yin of Chu ( 楚隠王 ) ruled 210 – 209 BC

The 60 year cycle combining the five elements with the twelve animal signs of the zodiac has been documented in China since at least the time of the Shang ( Shing or Yin ) dynasty ( ca 1766 BC – ca 1050 BC ).

File: Gu_wine_vessel_from_the_Shang_Dynasty. jpg | Shang Dynasty ( Yin ) bronze ritual wine vessel, dating to the 13th century BC, Chinese

Ruyi, Prince Yin of Zhao, a young son of Liu Bang ( Emperor Gao of Han ) and a favored concubine, Consort Qi, was made Prince Yin of Zhao under this emperor at around 198 BC.

Their last and most important capital, Yin, located in modern Anyang, is where the first Chinese writing was created.

The vast majority of the inscribed oracle bones date to the last 230 or so years of the Shang dynasty ; oracle bones have been reliably dated to the fourth and subsequent reigns of the kings who ruled at Yin ( modern Anyang )— from king Wu Ding to Di Xin.

Located about northwest of Anyang are the ruins of the Shang Dynasty capital known as Yin.

The vast majority record the pyromantic divinations of the royal house of the late Shang dynasty at the capital of Yin ( modern Anyang, Henan Province ); dating of the Anyang examples of oracle bone script varies from ca.

The annals of the Shang dynasty compiled by later historians were long thought to be little more than legends until oracle script inscriptions on bones dating from his reign were unearthed at the ruins of his capital Yin ( near modern Anyang ) in 1899.

The most noted of these was discovered in 1933 at Hougang, Anyang in central China's Henan Province, dating to the rule of King Wu Ding of the Yin Dynasty ( ca.

The bloody Battle of Muye then ensued some 35 kilometres from the Shang capital Yin ( modern day Anyang, Henan Province ).