Sui and Tang · Official and Scholar

Zhang Wenzong 張文琮

Zhang Wencong

Attested AD 627 - AD 652

Passages
10
Chapters
2
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhang Wenzong as an official, scholar, and writer. This record brings together 10 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Zhang Wenzong 張文琮 Zhang Wencong
Personal name Wencong 文琮 Wencong
Given Wenzong 文琮 Wencong
Surname Zhang Zhang
Personal name Zhang Wenzong 張文琮 Zhang Wencong

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Writer

Life and dates

Death

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 永徽初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 650 · End: AD 652
  • Source Date: Text: 永徽初 · Western Year: AD 650
    Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:113:s0121
  • Source Date: Text: 貞觀中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 627 · End: AD 649
  • Source Date: Text: 貞觀中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 627 · End: AD 649
    Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:113:s0120

Family

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Works and attributed material

  • Work: collected works / 文集 · Relation: author · Quantity: Scrolls: 20
  • Work: Eulogy for Emperor Taizong / 太宗文皇帝頌 · Relation: author
  • Work: Eulogy for Emperor Wen / 文皇帝頌 · Relation: author

References in the histories

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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 85Volume 81 Biographies 31: Cui Dunli, Lu Chengqin, Liu Xiangdao, Li Jingxuan, Li Yiyan, Sun Chuyue, Le Yanwei, Zhao Renben · 5 passages
New Book of Tang, Chapter 113Volume 113 Biographies 38: Tang, Zhang, Xu · 5 passages