Records

In the Records of the Grand Historian he was listed by Sima Qian as the seventeenth Shang king, succeeding his cousin Zu Ding. He was enthroned in the year of Bingchen (丙辰) with Bi (庇) as his capital. In the third year of his reign he moved his capital to Yan (奄). He ruled for about 29 years before his death. He was given the posthumous name Nan Geng and was succeeded by his cousin's son Yang Jia.

Oracle script inscriptions on bones unearthed at Yinxu alternatively record that he was the sixteenth Shang king.

在位年數

現今流傳文獻記載的南庚在位年數有3種說法：

• 在位6年，《今本竹書紀年》。

• 在位25年，《皇極經世》、《資治通鑑前編》、《文獻通考》均同。

• 在位29年，《太平御覽》卷83引《史記》，《冊府元龜》、《資治通鑑外紀》、《通志》均同。