Overview
The translated histories identify Zhang Jianming as a hermit, named individual, priest, and scholar. This record brings together 5 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 Jianming | 張薦明 | Zhang Jianming |
| Given | Jianming | 薦明 | |
| Title | Master Penetrating Mystery | 通玄先生 | |
| Surname | Zhang | 張 | |
| Personal name | Zhang Jianming | 張薦明 | Zhang Jianming |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleExplicit · xinwudaishi:034:s0031
Roles
- Hermit
- Named Individual
- Priest
- Scholar
- Teacher
Life and dates
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 五代 · Western Interval: Start: AD 907 · End: AD 960Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:034:s0008, xinwudaishi:034:s0001
- Source Date: Text: 高祖召見 · Western Interval: Start: AD 936 · End: AD 942Explicit · xinwudaishi:034:s0033
Career and standing
- Label: Master Penetrating Mystery / 通玄先生 · Action: bestowedExplicit · xinwudaishi:034:s0040
Places and affiliations
- Place: Yan / 燕Explicit · xinwudaishi:034:s0031
- Place: Hebei / 河朔 · Relation: traveled-inExplicit · xinwudaishi:034:s0032
Learning and skills
- Subject: Laozi and Zhuang Zhou / 老子、莊周 · Relation: studiedExplicit · xinwudaishi:034:s0032
- Belief: Confucianism / 儒學 · Relation: studiedExplicit · xinwudaishi:034:s0032
- Belief: Daoism / 道士 · Relation: adherent-ofExplicit · xinwudaishi:034:s0032
Works and attributed material
- Work: Daodejing / 道德經 · Relation: lectured-onExplicit · xinwudaishi:034:s0035
Events and relationships
- Kind: audience · Role: summoned · Other Person Id: Gaozu of Jin (晉高祖) · Action: answered-on-Daoist-governanceExplicit · xinwudaishi:034:s0033, xinwudaishi:034:s0034
- Kind: lecture · Role: teacher · Action: lectured-in-inner-hall · Other Person Id: Gaozu of Jin (晉高祖)Explicit · xinwudaishi:034:s0035
- Relation: teacher-of · Person Id: Gaozu of Jin (晉高祖)Explicit · xinwudaishi:034:s0035
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: contemporaries of Zheng Ao among recluses · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · xinwudaishi:034:s0008, xinwudaishi:034:s0031
Source notes
- 後不知其所終Explicit · xinwudaishi:034:s0040
References in the histories
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