Zhang Chi (張湜) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhang Chi as an editor and official. This record brings together 4 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	Zhang Chi	張湜	Zhang Chi
Title	Attending Censor	侍御史知雜事
Personal	Chi	湜	Chi

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:147:s0044

Roles

Editor
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 五年七月 · Western Year: AD 958
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:147:s0052
Source Date: Text: 顯德四年五月 · Western Year: AD 957
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:147:s0033, jiuwudaishi:147:s0044

Career and standing

Label: Attending Censor in charge of miscellaneous matters / 侍御史知雜事 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:147:s0044
Label: reward for revising the Penal Compendium / 賞刪定刑統之勞 · Action: received
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:147:s0067

Places and affiliations

Label: Later Zhou / 周 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:147:s0044

Works and attributed material

Work: Great Zhou Penal Compendium / 大周刑統 · Relation: compiler
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:147:s0062, jiuwudaishi:147:s0063, jiuwudaishi:147:s0067

Events and relationships

Kind: administrative · Role: compiler · Action: compiled-new-regulations
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:147:s0044, jiuwudaishi:147:s0051
Kind: administrative · Role: compiler · Action: completed-penal-compendium · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 顯德五年七月 · Western Year: AD 958
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:147:s0052, jiuwudaishi:147:s0063
Kind: honorific · Role: recipient · Action: rewarded-for-penal-compendium
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:147:s0067

Assessments and attributes

Item: mixed silks / 雜彩 · Relation: bestowed · Quantity: 三十匹
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:147:s0067
Item: silver vessels / 銀器 · Relation: bestowed · Quantity: 二十兩
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:147:s0067

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:147:s0044

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 147Volume 147: Treatises 9 Punishment and Law · 4 passages

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臣等商量，望準聖旨施行，仍差侍御史知雜事張湜、太子右庶子劇可久、殿中侍御史率汀、職方郎中鄧守中、倉部郎中王瑩、司封員外郎賈比、太常博士趙礪、國子博士李光贊、大理正蘇曉、太子中允王伸等一十人，編集新格，勒成部帙。 We have deliberated and ask to carry out the imperial will by assigning Attending Censor Zhang Chi, Right Vice Director of the Crown Prince's Household Ju Keyou, Palace Attending Censor Shuai Ting, Director Deng Shouzhong of the Bureau of Appointments, Director Wang Ying of the Bureau of Granaries, Vice Director Jia Bi of the Bureau of Seals, Erudite Zhao Li of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices, Erudite Li Guangzan of the Directorate of Education, Senior Rectifier Su Xiao, Junior Mentor Wang Shen—ten men in all—to compile new regulations and bind them into fascicles.

自是湜等於都省集議刪定，仍令大官供膳。 Thereafter Chi and his colleagues met at the capital offices to revise the code, and the Court of Imperial Entertainments was ordered to supply their meals.

五年七月，中書門下奏：「侍御史知雜事張湜等九人，奉詔編集刑書，悉有條貫，兵部尚書張昭等一十人，參詳旨要，更加損益。 In the seventh month of the fifth year, the Secretariat reported: "Attending Censor Zhang Chi and eight others, acting on the imperial edict to compile the penal code, have brought every article into systematic order; Minister of War Zhang Zhao and nine others have reviewed the essentials and made further revisions.

乃賜侍御史知雜事張湜等九人各銀器二十兩，雜彩三十匹，賞刪定《刑統》之勞也。 Zhang Chi and the eight other compilers were each rewarded with twenty taels of silver vessels and thirty bolts of mixed silks for their labor in revising the Penal Compendium.