Zhang Xu 張緒

Other names

Family

• Child of Zhang Yin (張寅)
  father 父 · paternal line
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 234
• Kin of Zhang Jing (張鏡)
  paternal uncle 叔父 · paternal line
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 235
• Descendant of Zhang Maodu (張茂度)
  grandfather 祖 · paternal line · 2 generations
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 233

Career and standing

• acting aide in the Right Army law bureau 右軍法曹行參軍
  AD 420 to AD 479 宋 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 237
• aide in the deliberation bureau 議曹從事
  AD 420 to AD 479 宋 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 236
• attendant on the chariot and horse staff 車騎從事中郎
  AD 420 to AD 479 宋 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 239
• chief clerk on Prince of Jianping's army-protector staff 建平王護軍主簿
  AD 420 to AD 479 宋 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 237
• chief clerk to the minister of works 司空主簿
  AD 420 to AD 479 宋 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 237
• chief rectifier of his native commandery 本郡中正
  AD 420 to AD 479 宋 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 239

Places and affiliations

• AD 420 to AD 479 宋
  Polity Id liu-song · Relation Served
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 236-237, 239
• At Wu in Wu commandery 吳郡吳
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 232
• At his native commandery 本郡 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 239
• At Wu commandery 吳郡 · Relation Native of
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 232

Learning and skills

• Nominated
  AD 420 to AD 479 宋 · Credential eminent scholar 秀才
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 236

Events and relationships

• Drafted by the province as deliberation bureau aide and nominated eminent scholar
  Appointment · Appointee
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 236
• When capital clerks consulted on county grain, gazed off with cool detachment and did not take it to heart
  Administrative · Official
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 238
• Relation Staff of · Person Prince of Baling (巴陵王)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 239
• Relation Staff of · Person Prince of Jianping (建平王)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 237

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment cool detachment; did not take granary consultations to heart · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 238
• Assessment famed from youth, pure and spare, with few wants · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 235
• Assessment this boy is the Yue Guang of our day · Mode named-source-report Speaker Zhang Jing (張鏡)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 235

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 232