Bao Bing of Shang

Bao Bing
匚丙
Ruler of Predynastic Shang
PredecessorBao Yi
SuccessorBao Ding
Names
Temple name
Bao Bing (匚丙)
FatherBao Yi
Bao Bing of Shang
Chinese匚丙 or 報(报)丙
Literal meaning"Bao III"
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyinbào bǐng
Bopomofoㄅㄠˋ ㄅㄧㄥˇ
Wade–Gilespao4-ping3
Wu
Romanization5pau 5pin
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanizationbou3 bing2
Middle Chinese
Middle ChinesepawH pjaengX
Old Chinese
Baxter–Sagart (2014)/*pˤuk-s praŋʔ/
Zhengzhang/*puːɡs pqraŋʔ/

Bao Bing (Chinese: 匚丙; pinyin: Bào bǐng) was the eleventh ruler of Predynastic Shang. Succeeding Bao Yi, he was the third of the Six Spirits (六示 (lìushì)) and venerated as an ancestral deity within the Religion of the Shang dynasty. After his death, he was succeeded by Bao Ding. He was only mentioned once in Records of the Grand Historian before oracular inscriptions revealed his historical deification, though comparatively little is known about his reign due to a lack of surviving records.