Is “Pan Geng's relocation to Yin and social revival” true?
According to the "Yin Benji" in the "Records of the Grand Historian": 「盘庚之时，殷已都河北，盘庚渡河南，复居成汤之故居，迺五迁，无定处……乃遂涉河南，治亳，行汤之政，然后百姓由宁，殷道复兴。」 Both the "Book of Documents·Pan Geng" and the "Records of the Grand Historian" record that Pan Geng led the Shang people to move the capital from Yan to Yin, alleviating class contradictions and rescuing the declining Shang dynasty; the novel's depiction of the background of the Shang dynasty's capital relocation aligns with official history.
Pan Geng, the reviving monarch of the Shang dynasty, is recorded in official histories as overcoming resistance to move the capital to Yin, and the novel largely follows historical facts.
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