Zhang Kongsun (張孔孫)

Overview

Zhang Kongsun was an official and Scholar.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Mengfu	夢符	Mengfu

Life and dates

Death

AD 1307 大德十一年
Age Value: 75 · Reckoning: Sui
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 236

Age

75
AD 1307 大德十一年 · Reckoning Sui
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 236

Attested activity

AD 1285 至元二十二年
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passages 207-209
AD 1291 二十八年
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 211
AD 1260 to AD 1294 元初東平萬戶府時期
Strongly inferred · History of Yuan 174, passages 193-195
AD 1307 大德十一年
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 236
AD 1260 to AD 1270 孔孫以奉禮郎為之副
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 174, passage 198

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Zhang Zhichun (張之純)
father 父
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 194
Child of Mother of Zhang Kongsun (張孔孫之母)
mother 母
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 195

Origins and identity

Wuru tribe of Liao 遼之烏若部
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 193

Career and standing

clerk 掾
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 199
Vice Minister of Rites 禮部侍郎
AD 1285 至元二十二年 · Appointed
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 174, passages 207, 209
Metropolitan Prefect of Daming 大名路總管
Appointed · concurrently prefect
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 213
Attendant Censor 侍御史
Appointed · directed censorate affairs
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 206
Associate Administrator of the Henan and Jiangbei Regional Secretariat 僉河南江北行中書省事
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 212
Grand Academician of the Hall of Gathered Worthies 集賢大學士
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 216

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Grand Master for Goodness 資善大夫
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 235
Grand Master of Palace Attendance 中奉大夫
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 216
Hanlin Academician Recipient of Edicts 翰林學士承旨
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 235
Investigating Commissioner of Yannan 燕南提刑按察使
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 210
Judge of the Nanjing Metropolitan Prefecture 南京總管府判官
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 200
Participant in Central Secretariat deliberations 商議中書省事
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 216
Vice Administrator of Baoding Metropolitan Prefecture 同知保定路總管府事
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 206
Vice Commissioner of the Sichuan Circuit Commission for Investigation and Censorship 僉四川道提刑按察司事
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 203
Vice Director of the Ministry of Revenue 戶部員外郎
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 200
Commissioner of the Commission for Government Integrity 肅政廉訪司使
AD 1291 二十八年 · Continued · At Daming 大名
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 211
Ceremonial Officer 奉禮郎
Held · deputy to Xu Shilong
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 198
Commissioner of the Huaidong Commission for Government Integrity 淮東道肅政廉訪司使
Promoted
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 215
Minister of Rites 禮部尚書
Promoted
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 210
Vice Commissioner of the Hubei Circuit Commission for Investigation and Censorship 湖北道提刑按察副使
Promoted
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 203
deliberating officer of the Myriarch Office 萬戶府議事官
Recruited
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 195
Grand Academician of the Hall of Gathered Worthies 集賢大學士
Retained
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 235
Vice Commissioner of the Zhexi Investigating Commission 浙西提刑按察副使
Transferred
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 206
retired from office 致仕
Retired · Entered
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 235

Places and affiliations

Polity Id liao · Relation Ancestral affiliation
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 193
Polity Id yuan · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · History of Yuan 174, passage 195
Polity Id yuan · Relation Served
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passages 198, 207, 236
At Baling 巴陵 · Relation Toured
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 204
At Daming 大名 · Relation Administered
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 211
At Long'an 隆安 · Relation Migrated to
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 193

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At Nanjing 南京 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 200

Learning and skills

Skill painting landscapes, bamboo, and rocks 畫山水竹石 · Level adept
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 237
Skill horsemanship and archery 騎射 · Level especially-accomplished
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 237
Skill letters and learning 文學 · Level renowned
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 195
Skill literary learning 文學 · Level renowned
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 237
Skill zither 琴 · Level skilled
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 237

Works and attributed material

eight points on quelling calamity after earthquake
Memorial · Author · Addressed to Emperor (帝)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passages 218-225
former river embankments presented to the empress dowager should be returned to the common people
Memorial · Author
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 214
repeated memorials on retirement ranks, mourning recall, palace guard abuses, prefectural selection, darughachi rotation, salaries, temple schools, Confucian ministers in chancellorship, and posthumous titles for former chancellors
Memorial · Author
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passages 227-234
recommended Helihuosun for chancellor
Sealed memorial · Co author · With Chen Tianxiang (陳天祥)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 217
open a path of self-renewal so cross-border smugglers may redeem death by battle service
Speech · Speaker
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 201

Events and relationships

Declined Shaanxi invitation because mother aged
Appointment offer · Invitee · With Elder Brother of Yan Zhongfan (嚴忠範之兄)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 195
Greatly expanded schools
Educational · Promoter · At Daming 大名
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 213
Named Kongsun by Duke Who Continues the Sage
Naming · Named person · With Duke Who Continues the Sage (衍聖公)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 194
Presented restored music
Ritual · Deputy supervisor · At the capital 京師
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 198
Proposed amnesty for smugglers to serve in Xiang Fan campaign
Political · Proposer · At Xiangyang and Fancheng 襄樊
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passages 201-202
Reduced sentences for grave desecration case
Legal · Judge · At Baling 巴陵
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passages 204-205

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Reversed false banditry confession
Legal · Judge · With Yin Zhizhong (尹執中)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 215
Secured return of embankments to commoners
Political · Memorialist · With Empress Dowager (太后)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 214
Submitted eight point calamity response
Political · Counselor · With Emperor (帝)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passages 218, 226
Used confiscated illicit funds to buy 5000 hu grain for famine relief
AD 1291 二十八年 · Relief · Administrator · At Daming 大名
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 211
Relation Recommender of · Person Helühuosun (和禮霍孫)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 217
Relation Honored by · Person An'tong (安童)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 200
Relation Recruited by · Person Lian Xixian (廉希憲)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 199
Relation Deputy of · Person Xu Shilong (徐世隆)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 198
Relation Co memorialist with · Person Chen Tianxiang (陳天祥)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 217

Assessments and attributes

Assessment forthright counsel widely admired; scholarly opinion esteemed him · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 238
Assessment remained unchanged in conduct while Ahmad's flatterers rose · Mode named-source-report Speaker An'tong (安童)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passages 207-208
Item five thousand strings of paper currency 鈔五千貫 · Relation Bestowed · With Emperor (帝)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 226

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 198

References in the histories

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History

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History of Yuan, Chapter 174Volume 174 Biographies 61: Yao Sui, Guo Guan, Jia Guzhiqi, Liu Geng, Ye Luyoushang, Hao Tianting, Zhang Kongsun · 16 passages

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張孔孫 Zhang Kongsun

張孔孫，字夢符，其先出遼之烏若部，為金人所並，遂遷隆安。 Zhang Kongsun, styled Mengfu, came of the Wuru tribe of Liao; when the Jin absorbed their territory the family moved to Long'an.

父之純，為東平萬戶府參議，夜夢謁孔子廟，得賜嘉果，已而孔孫生，因丐名於衍聖公，遂名今名。 His father Zhichun served as deliberator of the Dongping Myriarch Office. One night he dreamed of visiting the Temple of Confucius and receiving fine fruit; when Kongsun was born shortly afterward, he asked the Duke Who Continues the Sage for a name, and received the name Kongsun.

既長，以文學名，辟萬戶府議事官，萬戶嚴忠範之兄為陝西行省平章政事，聘孔孫，以母老不應。 When grown he won a literary reputation and was recruited as deliberating officer of the Myriarch Office. The elder brother of Myriarch Yan Zhongfan, then regional councilor of Shaanxi, invited him to serve, but he declined because his mother was elderly.

因詔徐世隆為太常卿，而孔孫以奉禮郎為之副，以董樂師，肄成，獻之京師。 An edict appointed Xu Shilong Minister of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices and Kongsun his deputy as ceremonial officer to supervise the musicians. When their work was complete they presented the restored music in the capital.

廉希憲居政府，辟為掾。 When Lian Xixian held power in the government he recruited Kongsun as a clerk.

及安童為相，尤禮重之，授戶部員外郎，出為南京總管府判官。 When An'tong became chancellor he treated Kongsun with special respect, appointed him vice director in the Ministry of Revenue, and sent him out as judge of the Nanjing Metropolitan Prefecture.

時方議下襄樊，朝廷急用兵，孔孫謂：「今以越境私販坐罪者，動以千數，宜開自新之條，俾得效戰贖死。」 As the court debated the reduction of Xiangyang and Fancheng and urgently needed troops, Kongsun said: "Thousands are now imprisoned for cross-border smuggling. Open a path to repentance and let them redeem their lives by serving in battle."

有司以真圖財殺人坐之，孔孫原其情，減罪。 Officials had charged them with murder for gain; Kongsun took account of their motives and reduced the sentences.

獨劉宣、張孔孫二人，恬守故常，終始如一。」 only Liu Xuan and Zhang Kongsun remained unchanged from first to last."

乃除宣吏部尚書，孔孫禮部侍郎。 Xuan was then made Minister of Personnel and Kongsun Vice Minister of Rites.