The Shang Dynasty has a history of 554 years from 1600 BC to 1046 BC. Shang Dynasty is the second dynasty in the history of China, and it is also the first dynasty in China with direct written records of the same period, from 17 to 3 1.

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. There are many Fang countries far behind the Shang Dynasty scattered inside and outside the sphere of influence of Shang Dynasty. During the Shang Dynasty, there were also developed non-Central Plains civilizations in the Yangtze River basin.