Zhang Cang 張蒼

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Explicit · hanshu:051:s0001

Roles

• Aristocrat
• Official
• Scholar
• Statesman

Family

• Child of Father of Zhang Cang (張蒼父)
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Parent of Son of Zhang Cang (張蒼子)
  Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

• Kinship Role: wives and concubines · Count: 100 · Note: 以百數
  Explicit · hanshu:051:s0100

Career and standing

• Label: student of pitch-pipes and calendar / 律歷
  Explicit · shiji:026:s0046
• Label: imperial counsellor / 御史大夫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十四年 · Western Year: BC 180
  Explicit · hanshu:051:s0019
• Label: chancellor / 丞相 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 正月甲午 · Western Year: BC 176
  Explicit · hanshu:051:s0020
• Label: governor of Changshan / 常山守 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · hanshu:051:s0009
• Label: minister of Dai / 代相 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · hanshu:051:s0011
• Label: minister of Zhao / 趙相 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · hanshu:051:s0012
• Label: Chancellor / 丞相 · Action: held
  Explicit · hanshu:025:s0162, shiji:026:s0046
• Label: imperial clerk / 御史 · Action: held
  Explicit · hanshu:051:s0002
• Title En: Grandee Secretary · Title Zh: 御史大夫
  Explicit · hanshu:005:s0299
• Title: Marquis of Beiping / 北平侯 · Action: enfeoffed · Households: 1200
  Explicit · hanshu:051:s0015
• Status: resigned · Action: entered
  Explicit · shiji:026:s0047
• Status: condemned-to-death · Action: pardoned · Authority Person Id: Emperor Gaozu (高祖)
  Explicit · hanshu:051:s0005

Places and affiliations

• Polity: Han · Relation: served
  Explicit · shiji:026:s0042
• Place: Yangwu / 陽武
  Explicit · hanshu:051:s0001

Learning and skills

• Skill: calendar / 歷 · Level: skilled
  Explicit · shiji:026:s0042

Works and attributed material

• Work: eighteen treatises on yin-yang, law, and the calendar / 書十八篇 · Relation: author
  Explicit · hanshu:051:s0102
• Work: intended calendrical treatise / 論著 · Relation: planned-author · Negated: true · Note: desired writings not completed
  Explicit · shiji:026:s0047
• Kind: joint memorial · Role: co-author · Quoted: true · Addressee Person Id: Emperor Wen of Han (孝文) · Topic: replacement penalties and staged penal service
  Explicit · hanshu:025:s0162, hanshu:025:s0163, hanshu:025:s0164, hanshu:025:s0165, hanshu:025:s0166, hanshu:025:s0167, hanshu:025:s0168, hanshu:025:s0169, hanshu:025:s0170, hanshu:025:s0171, hanshu:025:s0172, hanshu:025:s0173, hanshu:025:s0174, hanshu:025:s0175, hanshu:025:s0176

Events and relationships

• Kind: military · Role: captor · Action: captured Chen Yu · Other Person Id: Chen Yu (陳餘)
  Explicit · hanshu:051:s0010
• Kind: military · Role: participant · Action: followed campaign through Wu Pass to Xianyang
  Explicit · hanshu:051:s0006
• Kind: administrative · Role: judge · Action: rejected-Gongsun-Chen-memorial · Other Person Id: Gongsun Chen (公孫臣)
  Explicit · shiji:026:s0046
• Kind: career · Role: official · Action: voluntarily-resigned
  Explicit · shiji:026:s0047
• Relation: treated-as-father · Person Id: Wang Ling (王陵) · Note: 父事陵
  Explicit · hanshu:051:s0096

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: authority on Han law and calendar · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · hanshu:051:s0094, hanshu:051:s0140
• Kind: physical-description · Statement: over eight chi tall; toothless in old age, lived on milk
  Explicit · hanshu:051:s0098, hanshu:051:s0099
• Kind: physical-description · Statement: tall, heavyset, pale and smooth as a gourd
  Explicit · hanshu:051:s0005