Overview
The translated histories identify Zhang Zixin as a diviner, hermit, physician, and scholar. This record brings together 6 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Found inBook of Northern Qi
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Zhang Zixin | 張子信 | Zhang Zixin |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Uncertain
Roles
- Diviner
- Hermit
- Physician
- Scholar
Life and dates
Death
- Source Date: Text: 齊亡 · Western Year: AD 577 · Circumstance: died when Qi perishedExplicit · beiqishu:049:s0170
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 齊亡 · Western Year: AD 577Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:049:s0157
Career and standing
- Office: Grand Master of Palace Leisure / 太中大夫 · Action: appointedExplicit · beiqishu:049:s0161
Places and affiliations
- Place: Henei / 河內Explicit · beiqishu:049:s0157
- Place: White Deer Mountain / 白鹿山 · Relation: lived-in-seclusionExplicit · beiqishu:049:s0159
- Place: Ye / 鄴 · Relation: not-constantly-residentExplicit · beiqishu:049:s0161
Learning and skills
- Skill: Changes divination and wind angles / 易卜風角Explicit · beiqishu:049:s0162
- Skill: medicine / 醫術Explicit · beiqishu:049:s0159
Works and attributed material
- Kind: omen-interpretation · Role: speaker · Quoted: trueExplicit · beiqishu:049:s0164, beiqishu:049:s0165
Events and relationships
- Kind: omen-interpretation · Role: prognosticator · Other Person Id: Xi Yongluo (奚永洛) · Prediction: do not respond to summons that night
- Relation: honored-by · Person Id: Wei Shou (魏收)Explicit · beiqishu:049:s0160
- Relation: honored-by · Person Id: Cui Jishu (崔季舒)Explicit · beiqishu:049:s0160
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: pure and quiet by nature and versed in letters · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · beiqishu:049:s0158
References in the histories
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