Zhang Heng (章衡) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhang Heng as an official. This record brings together 2 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 Heng	章衡	Zhang Heng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · songshi:107:s0137

Roles

Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 熙寧之初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1068 · End: AD 1069
Explicit event contextual date · songshi:107:s0137

References in the histories

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History of Song, Chapter 107Volume 107 Treatises 60: Rites 10 · 2 passages

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暨熙寧之初，僖祖以世次當祧，禮官韓維等據經有請，適王安石用事，奮其臆說，乃俾章衡建議，尊僖祖為始祖，肇居東向。 By the beginning of Xining, when Emperor Xi was due for removal by generational order, ritual officials including Han Wei petitioned on canonical grounds; Wang Anshi was then in power and pressed his private theory, causing Zhang Heng to propose honoring Emperor Xi as founding ancestor in the east-facing seat.

至熙寧五年，王安石以私意使章衡等議，乃復祔僖祖以為始祖，又將推以配天，欲罷太祖郊配。 In the fifth year of Xining, Wang Anshi had Zhang Heng and others restore Emperor Xi as founding ancestor by private intent and wished to promote him to pair with Heaven and abolish Taizu's suburban pairing.