Liu Zhizhang (劉知章)

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Zhizhang as an administrator and official. This record brings together 3 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Liu Zhizhang	劉知章	Liu Zhizhang
Surname	Liu	劉	Liú
Personal	Liu Zhizhang	劉知章	Liú Zhīzhāng
Given	Zhizhang	知章	Zhīzhāng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Value: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:066:s0010

Roles

Administrator
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 明宗朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 933
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:066:s0010

Career and standing

Status: shackled-and-nearly-executed · Action: suffered · Authority Person Id: Li Siyuan (李嗣源)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0011

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 66Volume 66 Book of Later Tang 42: Biographies 8: an Zhonghui, Zhu Hongzhao, Zhu Hongshi, Kang Yicheng, Yao Yanchou, Song Lingxun · 3 passages

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明宗遣回鶻侯三馳傳至其國，侯三至醴泉縣，地素僻，無驛馬，縣令劉知章出獵，不時給馬，侯三遽以聞。 Mingzong sent the Uighur envoy Hou San post-haste to his homeland. At remote Liquan County there were no relay mounts; the magistrate Liu Zhizhang was out hunting and failed to provide horses promptly, and Hou San reported the delay at once.

明宗大怒，械知章至京師，將殺之； Mingzong flew into a rage, had Zhizhang shackled and sent to the capital, and meant to put him to death;

重誨從容為言，乃得不死。 Chonghui pleaded for him calmly, and Zhizhang was spared.