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Zhang Liang 張亮

Attested AD 534 - AD 550

Passages: 14
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhang Liang as a general, named individual, and official. This record brings together 14 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhang Liang	張亮	Zhang Liang
Title	Baron of Anding	安定縣男
Title	Baron of Yincheng	隰城縣伯
Courtesy	Bode	伯德	Bode
Personal name	Zhang Liang	張亮
Given		亮	Liang
Posthumous		司空公
Surname		張	Zhang

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · beiqishu:025:s0028, beiqishu:030:s0002

Roles

General
Named Individual
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died in office / 卒於位
Explicit · beiqishu:025:s0057

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天保初 · Western Year: AD 550
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:025:s0056
Source Date: Text: 天平中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 534 · End: AD 537
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:025:s0038
Source Date: Text: 武定初 · Western Year: AD 543
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:025:s0046
Source Date: Text: 武定末 · Western Year: AD 550
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:025:s0055
Source Date: Text: 禪代 · Western Year: AD 550
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:030:s0113

Career and standing

Label: palace attendant / 侍中 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 武定末 · Western Year: AD 550
Explicit · beiqishu:025:s0055
Label: general who pacifies the distant / 平遠將軍 · Action: appointed
Explicit · beiqishu:025:s0030
Label: inspector of You Province / 幽州刺史 · Action: appointed
Explicit · beiqishu:025:s0049
Title: Baron of Yincheng / 隰城縣伯 · Action: enfeoffed · Households: 500
Explicit · beiqishu:025:s0031
Label: posthumous Duke of Works / 司空公 · Action: granted
Explicit · beiqishu:025:s0057

Places and affiliations

Place: Yincheng in Xihe / 西河隰城
Explicit · beiqishu:025:s0028

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: planner · Action: saved-bridge · Place: Heyang / 河陽
Explicit · beiqishu:025:s0041, beiqishu:025:s0045

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: ancient manner in mourning Erzhu Zhao · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · beiqishu:025:s0216
Assessment: upright but corrupt in the provinces · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · beiqishu:025:s0053, beiqishu:025:s0054

References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 25Volume 25 Biographies 17: Zhang Zuan; Zhang Liang; Zhang Yao; Zhang Qi; Xu Yuan; Wang Jun; Wang Hong · 12 passages

張纂張亮張耀趙起徐遠王峻王紘 Zhang Zuan; Zhang Liang; Zhang Yao; Zhao Qi; Xu Yuan; Wang Jun; Wang Hong

張亮，字伯德，西河隰城人也。 Zhang Liang, styled Bode, came from Yincheng in Xihe.

兆左右皆密通誠款，唯亮獨無啟疏。 Zhao's close associates all secretly sent pledges of loyalty; only Liang sent no letter.

及兆敗，竄於窮山，令亮及倉頭陳山提斬己首以降，皆不忍，兆乃自縊於樹。 When Zhao was defeated he hid in the mountains and ordered Liang and his steward Chen Shanti to cut off his head and surrender. Neither could bear to do it. Zhao then hanged himself from a tree.

伯德伏屍而哭。 Bode knelt by the corpse and wept.

亮乃備小艇百餘艘，皆載長鎖，鎖頭施釘。 Liang then prepared more than a hundred small boats, each carrying long chains tipped with nails.

橋之獲全，亮之計也。 The bridge was saved by Liang's plan.

薛琡嘗夢亮於山上持絲，以告亮，且占之曰：「山上絲，幽字也。 Xue Jun once dreamed of Liang on a mountain holding silk. He told Liang and divined, saying, "Silk on a mountain — that is the character for 'hidden' (you).

數月，亮出為幽州刺史。 Several months later Liang was sent out as inspector of You Province.

亮性質直，勤力強濟，深為高祖、世宗所信，委以腹心之任。 Liang was plain and upright by nature, diligent and forceful. Gao Huan and Gao Cheng trusted him deeply and gave him duties at the heart of power.

伯德之慟哭伏屍，靈光之拒關駐蹕，有古人風焉。 Bode's wailing over the corpse, Lingguang's holding the pass and halting the carriage — therein was the manner of the ancients.

贊曰：纂、亮、耀、起，徐遠、纮、峻，奉日高升，淩風遠振。 Praise says: Zuan, Liang, Yao, Qi, Xu Yuan, Hong, Jun — they rose with the sun and shook the wind from afar.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 30Volume 30 Biographies 22: Cui Xian; Gao Dezheng; Cui Ang · 2 passages

帝已遣馳驛向鄴，書與太尉高岳、尚書令高隆之、領軍婁睿、侍中張亮、黃門趙彥深、楊愔等。 Gao Yang had already sent post-horses toward Ye with letters to Grand Commandant Gao Yue, Director of the Masters of Writing Gao Longzhi, army supervisor Lou Rui, palace attendant Zhang Liang, yellow gate Zhao Yanshen, Yang Yin, and the rest.

八日，楊愔書中旨，以魏襄城王旭並司空公潘相樂、侍中張亮、黃門趙彥深入通奏事。 On the eighth day Yang Yin wrote the central order, sending Wei Prince of Xiangcheng Xu with grand master of ceremonies Pan Xiangyue, palace attendant Zhang Liang, and yellow gate Zhao Yanshen to report at court.