Sui and Tang · Named Individual

Zhang Shi 奭

Attested AD 743

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhang Shi was a Named Individual.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Nickname	the dragged blank	曳白

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 743 天寶二年春
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 113, passage 18

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Zhang Yi (張倚)
son 男
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 113, passage 18

Events and relationships

Failed blank paper
AD 743 天寶二年春 · Examination · Candidate
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 113, passages 22-23

References in the histories

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 113Volume 109 Biographies 59: Feng Gang, Ashinashe'er, Qibi Heli, Heichi Changzhi, Li Duozuo, Li Siye, Bai Xiaode · 3 passages

天寶二年春，御史中丞張倚男奭參選，晉卿與遙以倚初承恩，欲悅附之，考選人判等凡六十四人，分甲乙丙科，奭在其首。 In the spring of Tianbao 2 (743), Zhang Yi's son Shi entered the examinations. Jinqing and Yao, eager to curry favor with the newly favored Zhang Yi, ranked sixty-four candidates in three tiers and placed Shi at the top.

眾知奭不讀書，論議紛然。 Everyone knew Shi was unlettered, and protest swirled through the capital.

而奭手持試紙，竟日不下一字，時謂之「曳白」。 Shi held his examination slip and wrote not a single character all day long, and contemporaries dubbed him "the dragged blank."