Shao Kang (Chinese: 少康; pinyin: Shào Kāng, his surname was Sì 姒) was the sixth king of the Xia dynasty of ancient China.

After he grew up, Shao Kang and his followers engaged in a battle against Han Zhuo, defeated and killed him, and restored the Xia dynasty.

Prior to Shao Kang, the Xia kings had become corrupt, squandered away the family fortune, and lost the good will of the people.

When Xiang was killed, Shao Kang's mother supposedly escaped by crawling through a hole dug by dogs at the foot of a wall.

From an early age, his mother taught Shao Kang his birthright, the failing of his family in corruption, and the need to restore rule.

Under his mother and grandfather's watchful eyes, Shao Kang learned history, literature and the art of war, for the eventual goal of overthrowing Han Zhuo and restoring Xia.

The tribal leader had some past ties to the Xia royal family and resented the rule of Han Zhuo and his tyrannical ways.

He saw potential in the young exiled prince of Xia, so he decided to grant Shao Kang his daughter's hand in marriage, and 100 sq.

This gave Shao Kang a base of operation, from which he could learn the art of state management and build his own population center to prepare.

Coincidentally, to the good fortune of Shao Kang in his marriage and his land grant, a former minister of Xia had hidden away a vast sum of treasure and had been buying arms and building an army in secret preparation for revenge on Han Zhuo.