Shang nationality is a tribe rising in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River.

According to legend, its ancestor Qi was at the same time as Yu. Shang Tang, the monarch of Xia and Shang Dynasties, led the destruction of Fangguo in the Battle of Mingtiao, and established Shang Dynasty in Bohai. After that, the capital of Shang Dynasty moved frequently, and it was not until its descendant Pan Geng moved to Yin that it was founded in Yin for 273 years. Therefore, Shang Dynasty was called Yin or Yin Shang by later generations. After Pan Geng's death, the throne was established by his brother Xiao Xin. After Xiao Xin's death, he was passed on to the emperor Xiao Ye. After Xiao Yi's death, his son Wu Ding succeeded him. The fifty years of Wu Ding's rule was the most prosperous period of Shang Dynasty. Di Xin, the last monarch of Shang Dynasty, set himself on fire after being defeated by Zhou Wuwang in the battle of Makino.

In Shang Dynasty, the system of succession to the throne was a brother in the early stage and a typical father-son succession in the later stage. The Shang Dynasty was in the heyday of slavery, the state power was initially established in the Tang Dynasty, and the social order of slavery was relatively stable. Slave owners and nobles are the ruling classes, forming a huge bureaucracy and army. The records of Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Jinwen are the earliest systematic characters in China.

There are many Fang countries far behind the Shang Dynasty scattered inside and outside the sphere of influence of Shang Dynasty. Among them, the tongue, ghost, soil and Qiang in the northwest and north are the most powerful. During the Shang Dynasty, there were also developed non-Central Plains civilizations in the Yangtze River basin. After Pan Geng moved to Yin, it eased the contradictions within the royal family and promoted the social and economic development. Pan Geng, known as the master of ZTE, laid the foundation for the arrival of Wu Ding's flourishing age. The above answers are for reference only.