Yuan · Official and Administrator

Zhang Siming 張思明

Attested AD 1282 - AD 1318

Passages
15
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

Zhang Siming was an official and Administrator.

PeriodYuan
IdentityHistorical · Male

Other names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Courtesy name Shizhan 士瞻 Shizhan

Life and dates

Attested activity

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Family

Career and standing

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  • Vice Commissioner of the Commission for Buddhist and Tibetan Affairs 宣政院副使
    AD 1311 to AD 1320 仁宗朝 · Appointed
    Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 177, passage 32
  • Reviewer of the Central Secretariat 中書省檢校
    AD 1295 元貞元年 · Appointed
    Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 177, passage 11
  • Director of the Left and Right Secretariats of the Jiang-Zhe Branch Secretariat 江浙行中書省左右司郎中
    AD 1306 十年 · Appointed
    Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 177, passage 16
  • Salt Transport Commissioner of the two Zhe regions 兩浙鹽運使
    AD 1312 皇慶元年 · Appointed
    Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 177, passage 19
  • Discussant of the Bureau of Military Affairs 參議樞密院事
    AD 1310 至大三年 · Appointed
    Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 177, passage 18
  • Salt Transport Commissioner of the two Zhe regions 兩浙鹽運使
    AD 1310 至大三年 · Appointed · did not take up the post
    Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 177, passage 18
  • usher of the Ceremonial Institute 侍儀司舍人
    AD 1282 至元十九年 · Held
    Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 177, passage 4
  • Assistant Administrator of the Dadu metropolitan circuit 大都路治中
    AD 1282 至元十九年 · Promoted
    Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 177, passage 9
  • Left Assistant Administrator 左丞
    AD 1318 五年 · Promoted
    Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 177, passage 48
  • Principal Clerk of the Ministry of Revenue 戶部主事
    AD 1295 元貞元年 · Promoted
    Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 177, passage 11
  • Chief Secretary of the Left Secretariat 左司都事
    AD 1297 大德初 · Promoted
    Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 177, passage 12
  • Discussant of Central Secretariat Affairs 參議中書省事
    AD 1314 延祐元年 · Promoted
    Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 177, passage 21
  • Chief Secretary of the Huguang Branch Secretariat 湖廣行省都事
    AD 1282 至元十九年 · Transferred
    Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 177, passage 10
  • Direct Attendant of the Academy of Scholarly Worthies 集賢司直
    AD 1305 九年 · Transferred
    Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 177, passage 15
  • Director in the Ministry of Personnel 吏部郎中
    AD 1301 五年 · Transferred
    Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 177, passage 14
  • Minister of Works 工部尚書
    AD 1311 to AD 1320 仁宗朝 · Transferred
    Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 177, passage 29
  • Director of the Left Secretariat of the Central Secretariat 中書省左司郎中
    AD 1310 至大三年 · Transferred
    Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 177, passage 18

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Carried and read confiscation documents from dusk until dawn
    AD 1282 至元十九年 · Administrative · Clerk · With Emperor Shizu (世祖)
    Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 177, passage 6
  • Cleared backlog in the six bureaus
    AD 1295 元貞元年 · Administrative · Reviewer
    Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 177, passage 11
  • Combined discipline and relief to quell destitute garrison unrest north of the ranges
    AD 1318 五年 · Military · Pacifier
    Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 177, passage 34
  • Firmly declined a promotion that skipped ranks
    AD 1282 至元十九年 · Political · Appointee
    Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 177, passage 10
  • First urged opening public granaries during famine in the two Zhe regions
    AD 1307 十一年春 · Relief · Advocate · At two Zhe 兩浙
    Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 177, passage 17
  • Received on the road while the emperor traveled to Shangdu and was restored to office
    AD 1318 五年 · Audience · Summoned official · At Shangdu 上都 · With Renzong (仁宗)
    Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 177, passage 47
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Assessments and attributes

Source notes

References in the histories

15 passages

History of Yuan, Chapter 177Volume 177 Biographies 64: Zhang Siming, Wu Yuangui, Zhang Sheng, Zang Mengjie, Chen Hao · 15 passages
一日,召右丞何榮祖、左丞馬紹,盡輸其贓以入,思明抱牘從,日已昏,命讀之,自昏達曙,帝聽忘疲,曰:「讀人吐音,大似侍儀舍人。」 On one occasion the Emperor summoned the Right Chancellor He Rongzu and the Left Chancellor Ma Shao to deliver in full the confiscated illicit gains. Siming followed with the documents in his arms. Night had fallen, yet the Emperor ordered them read aloud, and listened from dusk until dawn without tiring. He remarked, "The reader's delivery sounds very much like one of our Ceremonial Institute ushers."
皇慶元年,再授兩浙鹽運使,歲課羨贏,僚屬請上增數,思明曰:「贏縮不常,萬一以增為額,是我希一己之榮,遺百世之害。」 In 1312 he was again appointed salt commissioner for the two Zhe regions. When that year's receipts ran above quota, his staff urged reporting the surplus as a permanent increase. Siming objected: "Revenues rise and fall; if we lock in a bumper year as the standard quota, I would be trading a moment's credit for generations of harm."