Zhang Li (張礪) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhang Li as an official, scholar, and statesman. This record brings together 22 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhang Li	張礪	Zhāng Lì
Given name	Li	礪
Given	Li	礪	Lì
Surname	Zhang	張
Surname	Zhang	張	Zhāng
Personal name	Zhang Li	張礪	Zhāng Lì

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:076:s0137
Value: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0017

Roles

Official
Scholar
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Expression: died of grief and anger / 恚憤卒
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0164
Western Year: AD 947 · Time: that night
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:073:s0031

Attested activity

Western Year: AD 947 · Source Date: Text: Chronology stated or entailed by s0017, s0031
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:073:s0017, xinwudaishi:073:s0031
Source Date: Text: 天顯十一年 · Western Year: AD 936
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0138, liaoshi:076:s0139
Source Date: Text: 太宗崩 · Western Year: AD 947
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0153, liaoshi:076:s0164
Source Date: Text: 會同初 · Western Year: AD 938
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0148

Career and standing

Label: Hanlin commissioner and Minister of Personnel / 翰林承旨，兼吏部尚書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 會同初 · Western Year: AD 938
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0148
Label: Hanlin academician / 翰林學士 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0137, liaoshi:076:s0140
Label: Right Vice Director and Grand Councilor / 右僕射，兼門下侍郎、平章事 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0152
Action: seized and chained by Xiao Han · Agent Person Id: Xiao Han (蕭翰)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0029, xinwudaishi:073:s0030

Places and affiliations

Polities: Later Jin
Explicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0017
Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0140
Place: Cizhou / 磁州
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0137
Place: Hengzhou / 恒州 · Relation: resided-at
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0154

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Yaogu (堯骨)
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0149, liaoshi:076:s0150
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Xiao Han (蕭翰)
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0161, liaoshi:076:s0162

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 76Volume 76 Biographies 6: Yelu Jieli, Yelu Balide, Yelu Shuogu, Yelu Lubugu, Zhao Yanshou, Gao Mohan, Zhao Siwen, Yelu Oulisi, Zhang Li · 16 passages

Open chapter

耶律解裏耶律拔裏得耶律朔古耶律魯不古趙延壽高模翰趙思溫耶律漚裏思張礪 Yelu Jieli, Yelu Balide, Yelu Shuogu, Yelu Lubugu, Zhao Yanshou, Gao Mohan, Zhao Siwen, Yelu Oulisi, and Zhang Li

上命遷延壽秩，翰林學士承旨張礪進擬中京留守、大丞相、錄尚書事、都督中外諸軍事，上塗「錄尚書事、都督中外諸軍事」。 The emperor ordered Yanshou's rank raised. Hanlin Academician Commissioner Zhang Li proposed Central Capital regent, Grand Chancellor, Director of the Department of State Affairs, and Commander-in-Chief of All Military Affairs; the emperor crossed out "Director of the Department of State Affairs, Commander-in-Chief of All Military Affairs."

張礪，磁州人，初仕唐為掌書記，遷翰林學士。 Zhang Li came from Cizhou; he first served Tang as a secretarial aide and was later promoted to Hanlin academician.

會石敬瑭起兵，唐主以礪為招討判官，從趙德鈞援張敬達於河東。 When Shi Jingtang rebelled, the Tang ruler made Li judge on the pacification campaign and sent him with Zhao Dejun to relieve Zhang Jingda in Hedong.

及敬達敗，礪入契丹。 After Jingda was defeated, Li went over to the Khitan.

後太宗見礪剛直有文彩，擢翰林學士。 Later Taizong saw that Li was upright and gifted with letters and appointed him Hanlin academician.

礪臨事必盡言，無所避，上益重之。 In office Li always spoke his mind fully and held nothing back, and the emperor came to esteem him all the more.

礪對曰：「臣不習北方土俗，飲食居處，意常郁郁，以是亡耳。」 Li answered, "I am not used to northern ways of eating, drinking, and living; I have been miserable—that is why I fled."

礪去，可再得耶？」 If Li were lost, could we ever get him back?"

遂杖彥英而謝礪。 He had Yanying beaten and apologized to Li.

入汴，諸將蕭翰、耶律郎五、麻答輩肆殺掠，礪奏曰：「今大遼始得中國，宜以中國人治之，不可專用國人及左右近習。 After entering Bian, generals such as Xiao Han, Yelu Langwu, and Mada killed and plundered at will; Li memorialized, "Great Liao has only just won China; it should be governed by Chinese, not entrusted solely to Khitan and personal favorites.