Gong He

Also known as Gongbo He · Earl He of Gong

Gong He, also called Gongbo He or Earl He of Gong, was a Western Zhou figure linked to the Gonghe period, the fourteen years between King Li's flight to Zhi and the accession of King Xuan. The Bamboo Annals and related texts say he exercised royal authority in those years and returned to his own state when King Xuan took the throne; the Records of the Grand Historian instead says that the Dukes of Zhou and Shao governed jointly, later identified as Duke Ding of Zhou and Duke Mu of Shao. Some identify him with Duke Wu of Wei. The Tsinghua bamboo slips also record his rule.