Zhang Ji (張佶) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhang Ji as a general, military officer, and official. This record brings together 12 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 Ji	張佶	Zhāng Jí
Given	Ji	佶	Ji
Surname	Zhang	張	Zhang
Personal	Zhang Ji	張佶	Zhang Ji

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:017:s0185, jiuwudaishi:017:s0231

Roles

General
Military Officer
Official

Life and dates

Death

Status: died in office · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾化元年夏四月 · Regnal Year: 1 · Season: summer · Lunar Month: 4 · Western Year: AD 911
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:017:s0201

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 開平二年十一月 · Regnal Year: 2 · Month: 11 · Western Year: AD 908
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:017:s0228, jiuwudaishi:017:s0231
Source Date: Text: 乾寧初至乾化元年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 894 · End: AD 911
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:017:s0185, jiuwudaishi:017:s0201

Career and standing

Label: Yongshun army military commissioner / 永順軍節度使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開平初 · Western Year: AD 907
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:017:s0200
Label: campaign marshal / 行軍司馬 · Action: held for nearly twenty years
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:017:s0185, jiuwudaishi:017:s0188, jiuwudaishi:017:s0198

Places and affiliations

Place: Chang'an in Jingzhao / 京兆長安
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:017:s0184

Learning and skills

Credential: Mingjing classics examination / 明經 · Action: passed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾寧初 · Western Year: AD 894
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:017:s0185

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Provenance: Mode: direct-speech · Speaker Person Id: Zhang Ji (張佶)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:017:s0188, jiuwudaishi:017:s0192, jiuwudaishi:017:s0193

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: commander · Action: yielded-command · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:017:s0231

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: had the virtue of yielding command · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:017:s0231

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 17Volume 17 Book of Later Liang 17: Biographies 7: Cheng Rui, Du Hong, Tian Yun, Zhao Kuangning, Zhang Ji, Lei Man · 12 passages

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張佶，不知何郡人也。 Zhang Ji—his native commandery is unknown.

〈（《九國志》，佶，京兆長安人。 (The 《Nine Kingdoms Annals》 says Ji was from Chang'an in Jingzhao.

是時，佶為行軍司馬，屬潭人謀帥，曰：「張行軍即所奉也。」 Ji was campaign marshal; the Tan garrison chose him, saying, "We want Commander Zhang."

佶不得已而視事，旬日之間，威聲大振，寇亦解去。 Ji took command unwillingly; within ten days his authority restored order and the enemies withdrew.

〈（《九國志》，建峰將吏推佶為帥，佶將入府，常所乘馬忽爾踶齧不止，正中佶髀。 (The 《Nine Kingdoms Annals》 says as Ji entered headquarters his usual mount kicked and bit him square in the thigh.

佶謂將吏曰：「吾非汝主，當迎馬公為之。」）〉 Ji told the officers, "I am not your lord—bring Lord Ma." )〉

乃謂將吏曰：「佶才能不如馬公，況朝廷重藩，非其人不可。」 He told them, "I am no match for Ma Yin, and the court needs the right man for a frontier post."

佶受拜謁，禮畢，命升階讓殷為帥。 Ji received his bow, then stepped aside and installed Yin as commander.

佶即趨下率眾抃賀。 Ji hurried below and led the troops in acclaim.

殷果立勳，甚德佶。 Yin prospered and held Ji in deep esteem.

開平初，殷表佶為朗州永順軍節度使，累加檢校太傅、同平章事。 Early in Kaiping Yin made him military commissioner of Langzhou's Yongshun army and Honorary Grand Tutor and Secretariat Fellow.

張佶有讓帥之賢，雷滿辱俾侯之寄，優劣可知矣。 Zhang Ji showed the grace to yield command; Lei Man shamed the trust of a commissioner—the contrast tells all.