Zhang Zhuo (張鷟) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhang Zhuo as an official, scholar, and writer. This record brings together 8 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 Zhuo	張鷟	Zhang Zhuo
Nickname	Bronze Cash Scholar	青錢學士
Courtesy name	Wencheng	文成	Wencheng
Surname	Zhang	張
Personal name	Zhang Zhuo	張鷟	Zhang Zhuo
Given	Zhuo	鷟

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · xintangshu:161:s0003

Roles

Official
Scholar
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Statement: ended career / died in office as Gate Office vice director
Explicit · xintangshu:161:s0024

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 武後時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 690 · End: AD 705
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:161:s0020
Source Date: Text: 調露初 · Western Year: AD 679
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:161:s0009
Source Date: Text: 證聖中 · Western Year: AD 695
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:161:s0015
Source Date: Text: 開元初 · Western Year: AD 713
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:161:s0017

Family

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Descendant of Grandfather of Zhang Zhuo (張鷟大父)
Kinship Term: grandfather / 大父 · Generation Distance: 2
Ancestor of Zhang Jian (張薦)
Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
Parent of Father of Zhang Jian (張薦父)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Father of Zhang Zhuo (張鷟父)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological

Career and standing

Label: adjutant in the household of the Prince of Qi / 岐王府參軍 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xintangshu:161:s0011
Label: censor / 御史 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xintangshu:161:s0015
Label: Vice Director of the Gate Office / 司門員外郎 · Action: held
Explicit · xintangshu:161:s0024
Status: exile · Action: entered · Place: Lingnan / 嶺南
Explicit · xintangshu:161:s0017

Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned
Explicit · xintangshu:161:s0009

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Grandfather of Zhang Zhuo (張鷟大父)
Explicit · xintangshu:161:s0005, xintangshu:161:s0006, xintangshu:161:s0007

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: impetuous, unrestrained, florid writer; Bronze Cash Scholar · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · xintangshu:161:s0016, xintangshu:161:s0019

References in the histories

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New Book of Tang, Chapter 161Volume 161 Biographies 86: Zhang, Zhao, Li, Zheng, Xu, Wang, Feng, Yu · 8 passages

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祖鷟，字文成，早惠絕倫。 His grandfather Zhang Zhuo, styled Wencheng, showed precocious brilliance unmatched among his peers.

遂命以名。 He thereupon gave him the name Wencheng.

員外郎員半千數為公卿稱「鷟文辭猶青銅錢，萬選萬中」，時號鷟「青錢學士」。 Supervising secretary Yuan Banqian often told the princes and ministers, saying, "Zhuo's literary compositions are like bronze cash—ten thousand choices, ten thousand hits," and the age called Zhuo the "Bronze Cash Scholar."

證聖中，天官侍郎劉奇以鷟及司馬锽為御史。 During the Zhensheng era, vice director of the Bureau of Astronomy Liu Qi recommended Zhuo and Sima Zheng for appointment as censors.

開元初，御史李全交劾鷟多口語訕短時政，貶嶺南； At the beginning of Kaiyuan, censor Li Quanjiao impeached Zhuo for repeatedly mocking and denigrating current affairs, and he was demoted to Lingnan.

刑部尚書李日知訟斥太重，得內徙。 Minister of Justice Li Rizhi protested that the sentence was too harsh, and Zhuo was allowed an internal transfer instead.

鷟屬文下筆輒成，浮艷少理致，其論著率詆誚蕪猥，然大行一時，晚進莫不傳記。 Zhuo's compositions came from his brush at once, but they were florid and thin in substance; his essays mostly traded in ridicule and vulgarity, yet for a time they circulated everywhere, and younger scholars all copied and passed them on.

武後時，中人馬仙童陷默啜，問：「文成在否？」 During Empress Wu's reign, the eunuch Ma Xiantong was captured by Mohechuo, who asked, "Is Wencheng still alive?"