Zhang Xu 張緒

Other names

Family

• Child of Zhang Yin (張寅)
  father 父 · paternal line
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 234
• Kin of Zhang Jing (張鏡)
  paternal uncle 叔父 · paternal line
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 235
• Descendant of Zhang Maodu (張茂度)
  grandfather 祖 · paternal line · 2 generations
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 233
• Parent of Chong (充)
  son 子
  Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 269
• Parent of Ke (克)
  son 子
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 267
• Parent of Yun (允)
  son 子
  Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 268
• Kin of Rong (融)
  younger paternal cousin 從弟 · paternal line
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 264

Career and standing

• general who chastises the barbarians 征虜將軍
  AD 478 昇明二年 · Added
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 249
• palace attendant 給事中
  AD 484 明年 · Added
  Directly stated · nanqishu:033:s0259c
• regular attendant 散騎常侍
  Added
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 248
• valiant cavalry general 驍騎將軍
  Added
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 250
• palace attendant 侍中
  AD 473 元徽初後 · Appointed
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 245
• director of ceremonies 太常卿
  AD 482 四年 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 256

Places and affiliations

• AD 420 to AD 479 宋
  Polity Id liu-song · Relation Served
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 236-237, 239
• Polity Qi 齊 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · nanqishu:033:s0249a; nanqishu:033:s0249b
• Polity Southern Qi 南齊 · Relation Served
  Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 277-278
• Polity Southern Qi 南齊 · Relation Subject of history
  Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 1-2
• Polity Id liu-song · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 240, 244
• At Wu commandery 吳郡
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 248

Learning and skills

• Subject the Commentary on the Judgments and Images (Yao and Xici) 爻繫 · Relation Studied
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 282
• Nominated
  AD 420 to AD 479 宋 · Credential eminent scholar 秀才
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 236
• Skill Book of Changes 周易 · Level master
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 258
• Skill gifted speech 善言 · Level renowned
  Directly stated · nanqishu:033:s0249c

Works and attributed material

• Book of Changes 周易
  Relation Exegete
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 258-259
• Judgments and Images / Appended Phrases 爻繫
  Relation Student of
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 282
• Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 246, 259; nanqishu:033:s0259k
• Speech · Speaker
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 21, passages 69, 72

Events and relationships

• Drafted by the province as deliberation bureau aide and nominated eminent scholar
  Appointment · Appointee
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 236
• Headed National Academy at founding
  AD 482 四年 · Institutional · Appointee
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 256
• Ordered austere funeral without offerings
  Ritual · Decedent
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 263
• Recognized talent
  Personal · Patron recognizer · With Lu Xian (陸閑)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 248
• Recommended secretariat aide
  AD 473 元徽初 · Personnel · Recommender · With Wang Jian (王儉)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 244
• Refused Wenren Yong
  Personnel · Selector · With Wenren Yong (聞人邕)
  Directly stated · nanqishu:033:s0259j; nanqishu:033:s0259k

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment a man of elegance who deserves to be called a famed minister · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 278
• Assessment concentrated purity, unadorned air, and natural nobility; as a belted official in formal dress he was the court's hope and the people's gaze · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 277
• Assessment contemporaries called the secretariat succession a happy pick, likened to Jin use of Wang Zijing and Wang Jiyan · Mode public-opinion
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 257
• Assessment cool detachment; did not take granary consultations to heart · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 238
• Assessment famed from youth, pure and spare, with few wants · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 235
• Assessment long-standing reputation carried great weight · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · nanqishu:033:s0249c

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 2
• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passages 232, 240, 277
• said he had never in his life learned to say yes
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 246
• would not speak of gain; scattered wealth when it came to hand
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 260