Zhang Xuan (張絢) | 24 Histories

Overview

Zhang Xuan was an official and Diplomat.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 930 長興初
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 136

Career and standing

Personnel Bureau Director 吏部郎中
Held
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 136

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 68Volume 68 Book of Later Tang 44: Biographies 20: Xue Tinggui, Cui Yi, Liu Yue, Liu Ye, Feng Shunqing, Dou Mengzheng, Li Baoyin, Gui Ai, Kong, Miao, Zhang Wenbao, Chen Yi, Liu Zan · 1 passage

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長興初，奉使浙中，泛海船壞，水工以小舟救，文寶與副使吏部郎中張絢信風至淮南界，偽吳楊溥禮待甚至，兼厚遺錢幣、食物。 Early in Changxing, on a mission to Zhe, his ship was wrecked at sea and sailors rescued him and his party in small boats. Wenbao and his deputy, Personnel Bureau director Zhang Xuan, drifted on the wind to the Huainan border, where Yang Pu of Wu received them with exceptional courtesy and lavished money and provisions on them.