Zhang Yanshou (張延壽)

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhang Yanshou as a general and official. This record brings together 9 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhang Yanshou	張延壽	Zhang Yanshou
Posthumous name	Marquis Ai	愛侯	Ai hou
Given	Yanshou	延壽	Yanshou

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Uncertain

Roles

General
Official

Life and dates

Death

Posthumous Title: Marquis Ai
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 延壽 · Western Year: BC 70
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Family

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Sibling of Zhang Qianqiu (張千秋)
Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Shared Parentage: full
Child of Zhang Anshi (張安世)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Parent of Zhang Bo (張勃)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Sibling of Zhang Pengzu (張彭祖)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: younger · Shared Parentage: full

Career and standing

Office: Attendant of the Interior / 侍中
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Office: Chamberlain for Attendants / 光祿勳
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Office: General of the Household Gentlemen / 中郎將
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Office: Governor of Beidi / 北地太守
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Titles: left aide, chamberlain for the imperial stud
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Place: Pingyuan · Households: unchanged · Rent Tax: halved
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Event: succeeded to Anshi's marquisate
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References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 69Volume 59: Zhang Tang · 8 passages

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安世子千秋、延壽、彭祖，皆中郎將侍中。 Anshi's sons Zhang Qianqiu, Zhang Yanshou, and Pengzu were all made generals of the household gentlemen and attendants of the interior.

安世子延壽重厚，可以為光祿勳，領宿衛臣。」 Anshi's son Zhang Yanshou is grave and sincere and may serve as superintendent of the masters of writing, leading the palace guard ministers."

安世自見父子尊顯，懷不自安，為子延壽求出補吏，上以為北地太守。 Seeing how exalted he and his son had become, Anshi grew uneasy. He asked that his son Yanshou be given a provincial post, and the emperor appointed Yanshou governor of Beidi.

歲餘，上閔安世年老，復徵延壽為左曹、太僕。 A year later, pitying Anshi's age, the emperor recalled Yanshou to court as left aide in the secretariat and chamberlain for the imperial stud.

子延壽嗣。 His son Zhang Yanshou succeeded.

延壽已歷位九卿，既嗣侯，國在陳留，別邑在魏郡，租入歲千餘萬。 Yanshou had already served among the nine chief ministers. Once he succeeded as marquis, his state lay in Chenliu with a separate estate in Wei commandery yielding more than ten million in annual rent.

延壽自以身無功德，何以能久堪先人大國，數上書讓減戶邑，又因弟陽都侯彭祖口陳至誠，天子以為有讓，乃徙封平原，並一國，戶口如故，而租稅減半。 Yanshou felt himself without merit and wondered how he could long hold his forebear's great fief. He repeatedly memorialized to yield and reduce his households, and through his younger brother Marquis of Yangdu Pengzu spoke his utmost sincerity. The emperor took this as genuine yielding and transferred the enfeoffment to Pingyuan, merging the two states into one with the same households but half the rent and tax.

薨，謚曰愛侯。 He died and was granted the posthumous title Marquis Ai.

Book of Han, Chapter 89Volume 78: Xiao Wangzhi · 1 passage

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詔遣中朝大司馬車騎將軍韓增、諸吏富平侯張延壽、光祿勳楊惲、太僕戴長樂問望之計策，望之對曰：「《春秋》惡士□帥師侵齊，聞齊侯卒，引師而還，君子大其不伐喪，以為恩足以服孝子，誼足以動諸侯。 The court sent Grand Marshal Han Zeng, Marquis Zhang Yanshou of Fuping, Yang Yun, and Dai Changle to ask his counsel. Wangzhi answered: "The Annals fault Shi Hui for invading Qi with an army; when he learned the marquis had died, he withdrew. The noble man exalts refusing to strike a mourner—grace that wins filial sons and duty that sways the lords.