Five Dynasties · Official and Vice Minister of Rites

Zhang Yun 張允

Attested AD 934 - AD 940

Passages: 5
Chapters: 4
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhang Yun was an official and Vice Minister of Rites.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 940 五年
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 144, passages 78, 135
AD 940 天福五年四月
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 148, passages 24-25
AD 939 天福四年
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 78, passage 14
AD 934 癸亥
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 47, passage 103

Key source chapters

Career and standing

left regular attendant 左散騎常侍
Appointed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 78, passage 14
Right Regular Attendant 右散騎常侍
Appointed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 47, passage 103
reviewing secretary of the Six Armies and palace guards and Supervising Secretary 六軍諸衛判官、給事中
Held
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 47, passage 103
Vice Minister of Rites 禮部侍郎
AD 940 天福五年四月 · Held
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 148, passage 25
Vice Minister of Rites 禮部侍郎
Held
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 144, passages 78, 135

Places and affiliations

Later Jin 晉
Relation Served
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 148, passages 24-25
Polity Later Tang 後唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 47, passage 103
Organization Six Armies and palace guards 六軍諸衛 · Relation Officer of
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 47, passage 103

Works and attributed material

AD 940 天福五年四月
Memorial · Author
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 148, passages 25-36

Events and relationships

Appointed to compile
Deliberation · Participant
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 78, passage 14
Drafted ritual and music regulations
AD 940 五年 · Administrative · Commissioned official
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 144, passages 78, 135
Made right regular attendant
Appointment · Appointee
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 47, passage 103
Proposed abolition of mingjing and tongzi
AD 940 天福五年四月 · Political · Memorialist
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 148, passages 25, 32, 36-37

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 148, passage 25

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 47Volume 47 Book of Later Tang 23: Later Emperors Annals 2 · 1 passage

癸亥，以六軍諸衛判官、給事中張允為右散騎常侍。 On guihai Zhang Yun, reviewing secretary of the Six Armies and palace guards and Supervising Secretary, was made Right Regular Attendant.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 78Volume 78 Book of Later Jin 4: Gaozu Annals 4 · 1 passage

其詳議官，宜差太子少師梁文矩、左散騎常侍張允、大理卿張澄、國子祭酒唐汭、大理少卿高鴻漸、國子司業田敏、禮部郎中呂咸休、司勛員外郎劉濤、刑部員外郎李知損、監察御史郭延升等一十九人充。 Nineteen officials were appointed to deliberate the project in detail, including Liang Wenju, junior preceptor of the heir apparent; Zhang Yun, left regular attendant; Zhang Cheng, chief judge of the Court of Judicial Review; Tang Rui, chancellor of the Directorate of Education; Gao Hongjian, vice chief judge; Tian Min, vice chancellor of the directorate; Lü Xianxiu, director of the Ministry of Rites; Liu Tao and Li Zhisun, vice directors of the ministries of Personnel and Justice; and Guo Yansheng, investigating censor, among others.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 144Volume 144: Treatises 6 Music 1 · 2 passages

其正冬朝會禮節、樂章、二舞行列等事宜，差太常卿崔棁、御史中丞竇貞固、刑部侍郎呂琦、禮部侍郎張允與太常寺官一一詳定。 Concerning the mid-winter court assembly ritual procedures, hymns, formations of the two dances, and related matters, Director of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices Cui Zhi, Vice Censor-in-Chief Dou Zhengu, Vice Minister of Justice Lü Qi, Vice Minister of Rites Zhang Yun, and officials of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices are commissioned to determine each point in detail.

自唐末之亂，禮樂制度亡失已久，棁與御史中丞竇貞固、刑部侍郎呂琦、禮部侍郎張允等草定之。 Since the chaos at the end of Tang, ritual and music institutions had long been lost. Zhuo, together with Vice Censor-in-Chief Dou Zhengu, Vice Minister of Justice Lü Qi, Vice Minister of Rites Zhang Yun, and others, drafted regulations for them.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 148Volume 148: Treatises 10 Selection of Officials · 1 passage

四月，禮部侍郎張允奏曰：「明君側席，雖切旁求； In the fourth month, Zhang Yun, Vice Minister of Rites, wrote: "An enlightened ruler may sit alert and search widely for talent;