Yang Jia of Shang


Xiang Jia or Yang Jia was a Shang dynasty King of China.
In the Records of the Grand Historian he was listed by Sima Qian as the eighteenth Shang king, succeeding his father's cousin Nan Geng. He was enthroned in the year of Renxu with Yan as his capital. In the third year of his reign he sent troops against the barbarians of Danshan. He ruled for about 17 years before his death. He was given the posthumous name Yang Jia and was succeeded by his younger brother Pan Geng.
Oracle script inscriptions on bones unearthed at Yinxu alternatively record that he was the seventeenth Shang king, given the posthumous name Xiang Jia.