Song, Liao, and Jin · Official and Hermit

Zhang Teli 張特立

Died AD 1253

Passages
14
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhang Teli as a hermit, judge, official, and scholar. This record brings together 14 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Zhang Teli 張特立 Zhang Teli
Title Master of the Mean 中庸先生 Zhongyong Xiansheng
Given Teli 特立 Teli
Courtesy name Wenju 文舉 Wenju
Changed or taboo avoidance Yong 永 Yong
Surname Zhang 張 Zhang
Personal name Zhang Teli 張特立 Zhang Teli

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Hermit
  • Judge
  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Teacher
  • Writer

Life and dates

Death

  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 癸丑 · Western Year: AD 1253
    Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0069

Age

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 中統二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1261
    Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0070
  • Source Date: Text: 壬子歲 · Western Year: AD 1252
    Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0068
  • Source Date: Text: 正大初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1224 · End: AD 1231
    Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0056
  • Source Date: Text: 歲丙午 · Western Year: AD 1246
    Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0066
  • Source Date: Text: 泰和 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1201 · End: AD 1208
    Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0049
  • Source Date: Text: 癸丑 · Western Year: AD 1253
    Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0069

Career and standing

  • Label: magistrate of Luoyang / 洛陽令 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 正大初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1224 · End: AD 1231
    Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0056
  • Label: chief clerk of Yanshi / 偃師主簿 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0049
  • Label: investigating censor / 監察御史 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0060
  • Label: judicial officer of Xuande Prefecture / 宣德州司候 · Action: transferred
    Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0050
  • Label: Master of the Mean / 中庸先生 · Action: specially-granted · Other Person Id: Kublai Khan (元世祖) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 歲丙午 · Western Year: AD 1246
    Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0066
  • Label: Master of the Mean / 中庸先生 · Action: title-regranted-posthumously · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 中統二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1261
    Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0070, yuanshi:199:s0071
  • Status: retirement · Action: returned-to-countryside
    Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0064
  • Status: pardoned · Action: pardoned · Authority Person Id: Emperor Shizong of Jin (金世宗)
    Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0064

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Subject: Cheng school Changes / 程氏易 · Relation: studied
    Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0065
  • Credential: jinshi / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 泰和 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1201 · End: AD 1208
    Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0049

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Kind: illness · Statement: aged with failing eyes
    Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0067
  • Item: Hall of Beautiful Marsh (Lize) / 麗澤 · Relation: study-named
    Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0067

Source notes

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 199Volume 199 Biographies 86: Recluses · 14 passages
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歲丙午，世祖在潛邸受王印，首傳旨諭特立曰：「前監察御史張特立，養素丘園，易代如一，今年幾七十，研究聖經，宜錫嘉名，以光潛德，可特賜號曰中庸先生。」 In the bingwu year, when Kublai received the princely seal in his residence, he first sent word to Teli: "The former censor Zhang Teli has lived in rustic seclusion through the change of dynasties unchanged; he is nearly seventy and devoted to the classics. Let an honorable title glorify his hidden virtue: grant him specially the name Master of the Mean (Zhongyong)."