Zhang Wenbao (張文寶)

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhang Wenbao as a diplomat, judge, and official. This record brings together 9 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhang Wenbao	張文寶	Zhang Wenbao
Given	Wenbao	文寶	Wenbao
Given name	Wenbao	文寶	Wenbao
Surname	Zhang	張	Zhang
Personal name	Zhang Wenbao	張文寶	Zhang Wenbao
Personal	Zhang Wenbao	張文寶

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0012, jiuwudaishi:040:s0157, jiuwudaishi:068:s0132
Value: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:042:s0078

Roles

Diplomat
Judge
Official

Life and dates

Death

Place: Qingzhou / 青州
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0137

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 十一月戊辰 · Inherited Narrative Context: true · Western Year: AD 929
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:040:s0157
Source Date: Text: 天成四年二月 · Western Year: AD 929
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:040:s0012
Source Date: Text: 莊宗即位魏州 · Western Year: AD 923
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:068:s0134
Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:042:s0078
Source Date: Text: 長興初 · Western Year: AD 930
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:068:s0136

Family

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Parent of Zhang Ji (張吉)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological
Child of Zhang Yi (張顗)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological

Career and standing

Label: Vice Minister of War; formerly Right Regular Attendant of the Cavalry / 兵部侍郎、右散騎常侍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:042:s0078
Label: Right Regular Attendant / 右散騎常侍 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 十一月戊辰 · Inherited Narrative Context: true · Western Year: AD 929
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0157
Label: Vice Minister of Personnel / 吏部侍郎 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0134
Label: Vice Director of the Ministry of Punishments / 尚書刑部侍郎 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0012
Label: Vice Minister of Punishments / 刑部侍郎 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0157

Places and affiliations

Label: Later Tang / 後唐 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:040:s0157

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0012

Events and relationships

Kind: appointment · Role: appointee · Action: appointed-right-regular-attendant · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十一月戊辰 · Inherited Narrative Context: true · Western Year: AD 929
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0157
Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy · Action: shipwreck-and-mission · Other Person Id: Zhang Xuan (張絢) · Place: Huainan / Hangzhou / 淮南、杭州 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興初 · Western Year: AD 930
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0136, jiuwudaishi:068:s0137
Relation: client-of · Person Id: Zhu Youqian (友謙)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0133

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: refined, reserved, devoted to classical learning · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0135

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 40Volume 40 Book of Later Tang 16: Mingzong Annals 6 · 2 passages

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〈（《五代會要》：尚書兵部宣露布於樓前，宣訖，尚書刑部侍郎張文寶奏曰：「逆賊王都首級請付所司。」 (The 《Five Dynasties Essentials》 says War at the Secretariat proclaimed the bulletin at the tower; when it ended Zhang Wenbao of Punishments asked that Wang Du's head be given to the proper office."

戊辰，以刑部侍郎張文寶為右散騎常侍。 On wuchen Zhang Wenbao of Punishments became right regular attendant.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 42Volume 42 Book of Later Tang 18: Mingzong Annals 8 · 1 passage

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以右散騎常侍張文寶為兵部侍郎。 Zhang Wenbao became vice war minister.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 68Volume 68 Book of Later Tang 44: Biographies 20: Xue Tinggui, Cui Yi, Liu Yue, Liu Ye, Feng Shunqing, Dou Mengzheng, Li Baoyin, Gui Ai, Kong, Miao, Zhang Wenbao, Chen Yi, Liu Zan · 6 passages

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張文寶，昭宗朝諫議大夫顗之子也。 Zhang Wenbao was the son of Grand Censor Yi, who had served under Emperor Zhaozong.

文寶初，依河中朱友謙為從事。 Early in his career Wenbao served on the staff of Zhu Youqian in Hezhong.

莊宗即位於魏州，以文寶知制誥，曆中書舍人、刑部侍郎、左散騎常侍、知貢舉，遷吏部侍郎。 When Zhuangzong took the throne at Weizhou, Wenbao was made drafting commissioner and rose through the posts of Secretariat drafting secretary, vice minister of punishments, left honorary cavalier attendant-in-ordinary, and examination supervisor before becoming vice minister of personnel.

文寶性雅淡稽古。 Wenbao was refined, reserved, and devoted to classical learning.

長興初，奉使浙中，泛海船壞，水工以小舟救，文寶與副使吏部郎中張絢信風至淮南界，偽吳楊溥禮待甚至，兼厚遺錢幣、食物。 Early in Changxing, on a mission to Zhe, his ship was wrecked at sea and sailors rescued him and his party in small boats. Wenbao and his deputy, Personnel Bureau director Zhang Xuan, drifted on the wind to the Huainan border, where Yang Pu of Wu received them with exceptional courtesy and lavished money and provisions on them.

文寶受其食物，反其錢幣，吳人善之，送文寶等復至杭州宣國命，還青州，卒。 Wenbao accepted the food but returned the money, which won the Wu people's admiration. They escorted him back to Hangzhou to deliver the imperial commission, then he returned to Qingzhou and died.