Zhang Yanqing (张彦卿)

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhang Yanqing as a military officer and soldier. This record brings together 2 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhang Yanqing	张彦卿	Zhāng Yànqīng
Personal	Yanqing	彦卿
Personal	Zhang Yanqing	张彦卿

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · xinwudaishi:012:s0106

Roles

Military Officer
Soldier

Life and dates

Death

Manner: killed-in-battle · Place: Chu Prefecture / 楚州 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 显德五年正月丁未 · Western Year: AD 958
Explicit · xinwudaishi:012:s0106

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 显德五年正月 · Western Year: AD 958
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:012:s0106

References in the histories

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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 12Volume 12 Later Zhou Annals 3: Shizong, Emperor Gong · 2 passages

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丁未，克楚州，守将张彦卿、郑昭业死之。 On dingwei Chu Prefecture fell; its defenders Zhang Yanqing and Zheng Zhaoye died in the assault.

自四年十二月辛酉攻之，彦卿等坚守四十余日乃克之，其不走不降可知，故予其死。然所贵者死尔，本纪著其大节可矣。 The siege began on xinyou in the twelfth month of the fourth year. Yanqing and the others held out more than forty days before the city fell—they plainly neither fled nor surrendered, so the text records their deaths. What counts is dying in place; the annals need only note their steadfastness.