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Shang Jiezan was a Tibetan Minister and Diplomat.
IdentityHistorical · Male
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- Polity Tibet 吐蕃 · Relation Served
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Agreed to substitute sacrifices
AD 783 與吐蕃相尚結贊等盟於清水 · Diplomatic
· Addressee
· With Zhang Yi (張鎰) Ascended altar
AD 783 與吐蕃相尚結贊等盟於清水 · Ritual · Alliance participant · At Qingshui altar 清水盟壇
Buried victims without placing text in pit
AD 783 與吐蕃相尚結贊等盟於清水 · Ritual · Actor
Made alliance
AD 783 與吐蕃相尚結贊等盟於清水 · Diplomatic
· Tibetan minister
· With Zhang Yi (張鎰) · At Qingshui
清水 Requested ram in place of pig
AD 783 與吐蕃相尚結贊等盟於清水 · Ritual · Requester
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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 129Volume 125 Biographies 75: Zhang Yi, Liu Congyi, Xiao Fu, Liu Hun · 8 passages
盧杞忌鎰名重道直，無以陷之，以方用兵西邊，杞乃偽請行，上固以不可，因薦鎰以中書侍郎為鳳翔隴右節度使代硃泚，與吐蕃相尚結贊等盟於清水。
Lu Qi resented Zhang Yi's great reputation and upright conduct and had no means to entrap him. As troops were then being deployed on the western frontier, Qi falsely offered to go in person. The emperor firmly refused, and Qi therefore recommended Zhang Yi, with the title of vice director of the Secretariat, as military governor of Fengxiang-Longyou to replace Zhu Ci. Zhang Yi then entered into an alliance with the Tibetan minister Shang Jiezan and others at Qingshui.
將盟，鎰與結贊約各以二千人赴壇所，執兵者半之，列於壇外二百步；
Before the alliance, Zhang Yi and Jiezan agreed that each side would bring two thousand men to the altar site. Half would bear arms and be arrayed two hundred paces outside the altar;
結贊與其本國將相論悉頰藏、論臧熱、論利陁、斯官者、論力徐等亦七人，俱升壇為盟。
Jiezan, together with his country's generals and ministers Lun Xibizang, Lun Zangre, Lun Lituo, Siguanzhe, Lun Lixu, and others—also seven men—all ascended the altar to make the alliance.
初，約漢以牛，蕃以馬為牲，鎰恥與之盟，將殺其禮，乃請結贊曰：「漢非牛不田，蕃非馬不行，今請以羊豕犬三物代之。」
At first it was agreed that the Han side would use an ox and the Tibetan side a horse as sacrificial victims. Ashamed to ally on those terms, Zhang Yi sought to diminish the rite and requested of Jiezan, "The Han cannot plow without oxen, and Tibet cannot travel without horses. I request that sheep, pigs, and dogs be substituted instead."
結贊許諾。
Jiezan agreed.
時塞外無豕，結贊請以羝羊，鎰出犬、白羊，乃坎於壇北刑之，雜血一器而歃，盟文曰：
At that time there were no pigs beyond the frontier, so Jiezan requested a ram in place of a pig. Zhang Yi produced a dog and a white sheep. They dug a pit north of the altar and executed the victims there, mixed the blood in one vessel and drank it, and the alliance text read:
結贊亦出盟文，不加於坎，但埋牲而已。
Jiezan also produced an alliance text. He did not add it to the pit but merely buried the sacrificial victims.
盟畢，結贊請鎰就壇之西南隅佛幄中焚香為誓，誓畢，復升壇飲酒。
When the alliance was complete, Jiezan requested that Zhang Yi go to the Buddha pavilion at the southwest corner of the altar and burn incense to swear. When the oath was complete, they again ascended the altar and drank wine.