Sui and Tang · Family Member

Mother of Zhang Jian 張薦母

Attested AD 766 - AD 779

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Mother of Zhang Jian was a Family Member.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 766 to AD 779 大歷中
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 161, passage 27

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Zhang Jian (張薦)
mother 母
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 161, passage 27

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 161Volume 161 Biographies 86: Zhang, Zhao, Li, Zheng, Xu, Wang, Feng, Yu · 1 passage

大歷中，浙西觀察使李涵表薦才任史官，詔授左司禦率府兵曹參軍，以母老辭不就。 In the Dali era, Zhexi observation commissioner Li Han memorialized that Jian was fit to serve as historiographer; an edict appointed him military affairs assistant in the Imperial Guard Bureau, but he declined because his mother was old.