寧 Níng

Crown Prince Huizhao, Ning, was first made Prince of Pingyuan in the twenty-first year of Zhenyuan, enfeoffed at the same time as the four princes of Tong'an, Pengcheng, Gaomi and Wen'an. When the emperor took the throne, he was raised to Prince of Deng, enfeoffed at the same time as the four princes of Li, Shen, Yang and Jiang. Edit

At that time the heir to the state had not been named, and Li Jiang and others proposed: "The sage regards the realm as a great vessel. He knows that one man cannot transform it alone and that the four seas cannot be without a root, and so he sets up a crown prince as his second; only then are men's hearts settled and the ancestral shrines secure. This is the unchanging constant way of holding a state. Your Majesty received the mandate four years ago, yet your eldest son has not been named. This opens the way to covetous designs and goes against the principle of prudence; it is not the way to carry on from the line of sage rulers and set an example to ten thousand generations." The emperor said, "Good." Ning was made Crown Prince and his name changed to Zhou, and the edict was first shown to Li Jiang and the others. Before long he took back his original name. The investiture ceremony was set for the first month of summer, but it rained and could not be held; it was moved to the first month of autumn, but again it rained; and in the tenth month, in winter, the ceremony was at last held. He died the next year, at the age of nineteen. Edit