Zhang Jianfeng (張建封)

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhang Jianfeng as a general and official. This record brings together 4 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhang Jianfeng	張建封	Zhāng Jiànfēng
Given name	Jianfeng	建封	Jiànfēng
Personal name	Zhang Jianfeng	張建封	Zhāng Jiànfēng
Personal	Zhang Jianfeng	張建封	Zhang Jianfeng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0149, jiutangshu:150:s0056, xintangshu:172:s0130

Roles

General
Official

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 貞元十六年 · Western Year: AD 800
Explicit · jiutangshu:150:s0056

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 建中初 · Western Year: c. AD 780
Explicit · xintangshu:172:s0130
Source Date: Text: 興元 · Western Year: AD 784
Explicit event contextual date · jiutangshu:130:s0149
Source Date: Text: 貞元十六年 · Western Year: AD 800
Explicit · jiutangshu:150:s0056

Family

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Parent of Zhang Yin (張愔)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: fortified Huoqiu against Du Shaoqian
Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0151

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · xintangshu:172:s0130

References in the histories

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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 130Volume 126 Biographies 76: Li Kui, Li Han, Chen Shaoyou, Lu Yue, Pei Xu · 2 passages

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其年，希烈僭號，遣其將楊豐賫偽赦書赴揚州，至壽州，為刺史張建封候騎所得，建封對中使二人及少遊判官許子瑞廷責豐而斬之。 That year Xilie declared himself emperor and sent his general Yang Feng with a false amnesty to Yangzhou. At Shouzhou, Prefect Zhang Jianfeng's scouts seized him. Before two palace envoys and Shaoyou's aide Xu Zirui, Jianfeng rebuked Feng publicly and beheaded him.

建封於霍丘堅柵，嚴加守禁，少誠竟不能進。 Jianfeng fortified Huoqiu and held it strictly. Shaoqian could not break through.

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 150Volume 146 Biographies 96: Xue Bo, Bao Fang, Li Ziliang, Li Shuo, Yan Shou, Xiao Xin, Du Ya, Wang Wei, Li Ruochu, Yu Qi, Lu Zheng, Yan Ping, Zheng Yuan, Du Jian, Pei Bin, Xue Pi · 1 passage

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十六年，徐帥張建封卒，徐軍亂，又以諒領徐州節度大使、徐泗濠觀察處置等使，以建封子愔為留後。 In the sixteenth year, Zhang Jianfeng, commander of Xu, died and the Xu army mutinied; Liang was again appointed military commissioner of Xuzhou and observation and disposition commissioner for Xu, Si, and Hao, with Jianfeng's son Yin as deputy commissioner.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 172Volume 172 Biographies 97: Yu, Wang, Two Du's, Fan · 1 passage

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建中初，進士高第，徐泗節度使張建封表置其府。 Early in the Jianzhong reign he ranked high on the metropolitan examination; Zhang Jianfeng, military governor of Xu-Si, had him posted to his headquarters.