Zhang Gui (張珪) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhang Gui as a named individual, official, and statesman. This record brings together 8 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhang Gui	張珪	Zhang Gui
Title	Pingzhang	平章
Personal name	Zhang Gui	張珪	Zhang Gui
Personal name	Zhang Gui	張珪	Zhāng Guī

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0165, yuanshi:116:s0122, yuanshi:171:s0097
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · yuanshi:179:s0072

Roles

Named Individual
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 仁宗朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1311 · End: AD 1320
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:179:s0072
Source Date: Text: 延祐七年十二月 · Western Year: AD 1320
Strongly inferred · yuanshi:116:s0122, yuanshi:116:s0097
Source Date: Text: 泰定元年 · Western Year: AD 1324
Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0097
Source Date: Text: 至順元年，以籍沒張珪家田 · Western Year: AD 1330
Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0165
Source Date: Text: 英宗朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1320 · End: AD 1323
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:179:s0128

Career and standing

Label: Grand Councillor / 平章政事 · Action: held
Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0097
Label: Pingzhang / 平章 · Action: held
Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0122

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: yuan · Relation: associated-with
Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0122

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Baizhu (拜住)
Explicit · yuanshi:179:s0130, yuanshi:179:s0131

Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: victim · Action: beaten · Other Person Id: Timur (叠木帖兒)
Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0122

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 114Volume 114 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts 1 · 1 passage

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至順元年，以籍沒張珪家田四百頃，賜護聖寺為永業。 In Zhishun 1 four hundred qing of fields confiscated from Zhang Gui's household were granted to the Husheng Temple as perpetual property.

History of Yuan, Chapter 116Volume 116 Biographies 3: Empresses and Consorts 2 · 1 passage

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然不事檢飭，自正位東朝，淫恣益甚，內則黑驢母亦烈失八用事，外則幸臣失烈門、紐鄰及時宰叠木帖兒相率為奸，以至箠辱平章張珪等，濁亂朝政，無所不至。 Yet she did not restrain herself. From establishing her position in the Eastern Court, debauchery grew ever worse. Within, Heilümu and Yilieshiba held power; without, favorites Shiliesmen and Niulin and the chief minister Timur led one another in wickedness, even to beating the Pingzhang Zhang Gui and others — corrupting government affairs without limit.

History of Yuan, Chapter 171Volume 171 Biographies 58: Liu Yin, Wu Cheng · 1 passage

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泰定元年，初開經筵，首命澄與平章政事張珪、國子祭酒鄧文原為講官。 In the first year of Taiding (1324), when the Classics Lecture was first established, Wu Cheng was among the first appointed, together with Grand Councillor Zhang Gui and Director of Education Deng Wenyuan, to serve as lecturers.

History of Yuan, Chapter 179Volume 179 Biographies 66: He Sheng, Yang Duoerzhi, Xiao Baizhu · 5 passages

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有言近臣受賄者，帝怒其非所當言，將誅之，時張珪為御史中丞，叩頭諫，不聽。 When someone reported that a close associate had taken bribes, the emperor was angry at the impropriety of the accusation and was about to execute the accuser. Zhang Gui was then Censor-in-Chief; he kowtowed in remonstrance, but the emperor would not listen.

世無諍臣久矣，張珪真中丞也。」 The world has lacked outspoken ministers for a long time. Zhang Gui is a true censor-in-chief."

帝喜，竟用珪言，拜朵兒只為侍御史。 Pleased, the emperor ultimately followed Zhang Gui's advice and appointed Duoerzhi Investigating Censor.

會有天災，求直言，會議廷中，集賢大學士張珪、中書參議回回，皆稱蕭、楊等死甚冤，是致不雨。 When a natural disaster struck and the throne called for frank criticism, Grand Academician Zhang Gui and Secretariat Participant Huihui both declared at court that the deaths of Xiao, Yang, and the others were gross injustices and were the cause of the drought.

及珪拜平章，即告丞相拜住曰：「賞罰不當，枉抑不伸，不可以為治。 When Zhang Gui was appointed Assistant Administrator, he told Chief Minister Baizhu at once, "When rewards and punishments are wrong and wrongful suppression goes unredressed, good government is impossible.