Zhang Qian (張潛) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhang Qian as a hermit, scholar, and student. This record brings together 6 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 Qian	張潛	Zhang Qian
Given name	Qian	潛	Qian
Personal name	Zhang Qian	張潛	Zhang Qian
Nickname	Zhang the Ancient	張古人	Zhang Guren
Courtesy name	Zhongsheng	仲升	Zhongsheng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Hermit
Scholar
Student

Life and dates

Death

Manner: fasted seven days · Place: Shaoshi / 少室 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天興間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1232 · End: AD 1234
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Age

Age: 30 · Reckoning: sui · Context: began serious study
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Age: 50 · Reckoning: sui · Context: first marriage
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天興間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1232 · End: AD 1234
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Family

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Spouse of Lady Sun of Lushan (魯山孫氏)
Kinship Term: married / 娶 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife

Places and affiliations

Place: Wuqing / 武清
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Learning and skills

Label: received Changes from Gao Zhongzhen / 從仲振受易
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Events and relationships

Kind: moral · Role: actor · Action: returned-axe; refused-full-melons; inspired-brothers
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: honored as Zhang the Ancient · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report
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References in the histories

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History of Jin, Chapter 127Volume 127 Biographies 65: Xiao You, Wendihanwolubu, Chen Yan, Liu Yu, Meng Xing, Wang Zhen, Liu Zheng, Yin Yi, Chu Chengliang, Wang Qufei, Zhao Zhi, Du Shisheng, Hao Tianting, Xue Jiyuan, Gao Zhongzhen, Zhang Qian, Wang Rumei, Song Ke, Xin Yuan, Wang Yuke · 6 passages

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嘗與其弟子張潛、王汝梅行山谷間，人望之翩然如仙。 Once, walking through valleys and hills with his disciples Zhang Qian and Wang Rumei, onlookers thought them airy and transcendent as immortals.

張潛，字仲升，武清人。 Zhang Qian, styled Zhongsheng, came from Wuqing.

時人高其行誼，目曰「張古人。」 People of the time honored his conduct and called him "Zhang the Ancient."

鄰里有為潛種瓜者，及熟讓潛，潛弗許，竟分而食之。 A neighbor planted melons for Qian; when they ripened he offered them to Qian, but Qian refused and in the end they shared them.

裏有兄弟分財者，其弟曰：「我家如此，獨不畏張先生知耶？」 In the village brothers were dividing property; the younger said, "Our family is like this — are we not afraid that Master Zhang will know?"

天興間，潛挈家避兵少室，乃不食七日死，孫氏亦投絕澗死焉。 During Tianxing, Qian took his family to Shaoshi to escape the troops; he fasted seven days and died, and Lady Sun also threw herself into a deep ravine and died.