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Overview The translated histories identify Yu Zhang as a named individual and official. This record brings together 7 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
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Yu Zhang
萭章
Yu Zhang
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West-City Yu Zixia
城西萭章子夏
Chengxi Yu Zhang Zixia
Given
Zhang
章
Zhang
Courtesy
Zixia
子夏
Zixia
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Book of Han, Chapter 104 Volume 92: Youxias · 7 passages
萭章字子夏，長安人也。
Yu Zhang, styled Zixia, came from Chang'an.
長安熾盛，街閭各有豪俠，章在城西柳市，號曰「城西萭章子夏」。
Chang'an seethed with swagger, each ward its own swordsmen; Yu Zhang held Willow Market west of the walls and was known as "West-City Yu Zixia."
為京兆尹門下督，從至殿中，侍中諸侯貴人爭欲揖章，莫與京兆尹言者。
As chief retainer to the Metropolitan Governor he entered the palace, where nobles and attendants crowded to bow to him and ignored their own superior.
章逡循甚懼。
Yu Zhang shrank back in terror.
顯資巨萬，當去，留床席器物數百萬直，欲以與章，章不受。
Shi Xian was worth millions; on the road out he tried to deed Yu Zhang furniture and fittings valued in the millions, but Yu Zhang refused.
賓客或問其故，章歎曰：「吾以布衣見哀於石君，石君家破，不能有以安也，而受其財物，此為石氏之禍，萭氏反當以為福邪！」
When retainers pressed him, Yu Zhang sighed, "Shi Xian pitied me when I was nobody; now his house is ruined and I cannot save him—if I grabbed his goods I would pile disaster on the Shis and call it luck for the Yus!"
河平中，王尊為京兆尹，捕擊豪俠，殺章及箭張回、酒市趙君都、賈子光，皆長安名豪，報仇怨養刺客者也。
Under Heping, Wang Zun as Metropolitan Governor swept the bravos: he executed Yu Zhang, the archer Zhang Hui, Zhao Jundu of Wine Market, and Jia Ziguang—Chang'an kingpins who kept killers on retainer.