Zhang Yun (張允) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhang Yun as an official and scholar. This record brings together 3 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 Yun	張允	Zhang Yun
Title	Vice Minister of Rites	禮部侍郎
Given	Yun	允	Yun
Surname	Zhang	張	Zhang
Given		允	Yun
Surname		張	Zhang

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:144:s0078, jiuwudaishi:148:s0025

Roles

Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 940
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:144:s0078, jiuwudaishi:144:s0135
Source Date: Text: 天福五年四月 · Western Year: AD 940
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0024, jiuwudaishi:148:s0025

Career and standing

Label: Vice Minister of Rites / 禮部侍郎 · Action: held · Source Date: Text: 天福五年四月 · Western Year: AD 940
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0025
Label: Vice Minister of Rites / 禮部侍郎 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:144:s0078, jiuwudaishi:144:s0135

Places and affiliations

Label: Later Jin / 晉 · Relation: served
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0024, jiuwudaishi:148:s0025

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天福五年四月 · Western Year: AD 940
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0025, jiuwudaishi:148:s0026, jiuwudaishi:148:s0027, jiuwudaishi:148:s0028, jiuwudaishi:148:s0029, jiuwudaishi:148:s0030, jiuwudaishi:148:s0031, jiuwudaishi:148:s0032, jiuwudaishi:148:s0033, jiuwudaishi:148:s0034, jiuwudaishi:148:s0035, jiuwudaishi:148:s0036

Events and relationships

Kind: administrative · Role: commissioned-official · Action: drafted-ritual-and-music-regulations · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 940
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:144:s0078, jiuwudaishi:144:s0135
Kind: political · Role: memorialist · Action: proposed-abolition-of-mingjing-and-tongzi · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天福五年四月 · Western Year: AD 940
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0025, jiuwudaishi:148:s0032, jiuwudaishi:148:s0036, jiuwudaishi:148:s0037

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0025

References in the histories

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

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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

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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;