Five Dynasties · Official and Historian

Zhang Zhao 張昭

Zhāng Zhāo

Attested AD 956 - AD 957

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhang Zhao was an official and Historian.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 956 to AD 957 AD 956-957
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 116, passage 236

Career and standing

Minister of War 兵部尚書
Held
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 116, passage 236

Works and attributed material

Veritable Records of Taizu and of Liang and Qingtai reigns 太祖實錄及梁均王、唐清泰帝兩朝實錄
Relation Compiler
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 116, passages 236, 238

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 116Volume 116 Book of Later Zhou 18: Shizong Annals 3 · 2 passages

癸亥，詔兵部尚書張昭纂修太祖實錄及梁均王、唐清泰帝兩朝實錄。 On guihai Minister of War Zhang Zhao was ordered to compile the Veritable Records of Taizu and the records of the Liang and Tang Qingtai reigns.

〈（《五代會要》云：同修撰官委張昭定名奏請，至四年正月，張昭奏請國子祭酒尹拙、太子詹事劉溫叟同編修。）〉 (The Institutions of the Five Dynasties records that Zhang Zhao was to nominate co-compilers; in the first month of the fourth year he proposed Yin Zhuo and Liu Wensou join the project.)〉