Zhang Yong (張永) | 24 Histories

Overview

Zhang Yong was an official and Musician.

PeriodThree Kingdoms and Six Dynasties

IdentityHistorical · Male

Roles

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Life and dates

Death

AD 470 to AD 479 遭父喪
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 24, passage 180

Attested activity

AD 460 Liu Song
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 30, passage 84
AD 468 十有二月甲午
Dated from the passage context · Book of Wei 7, passage 88
AD 466 天安元年九月
Dated from the passage context · Book of Wei 7, passage 40
AD 466 天安元年十有二月己未
Directly stated · Book of Wei 7, passage 45
AD 420 to AD 479 宋
Directly stated · Book of Liang 16, passage 81
AD 420 to AD 479 宋世
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 39, passage 154

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AD 454 to AD 464 宋孝武
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 24, passage 174
AD 420 to AD 479 岱少與兄…俱知名
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 32, passage 60
AD 472 to AD 477 拒桂陽賊
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 24, passage 178
AD 467 皇興元年春正月癸巳
Directly stated · Book of Wei 7, passage 48

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Kin of Gu Xie (顧協)
maternal great-uncle 外從祖 · maternal line · 2 generations
Directly stated · Book of Liang 30, passage 84
Sibling of Zhang Dai (張岱)
elder brother 兄 · Full siblings · paternal line
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 32, passage 60
Child of Zhang Yu (張裕)
father 父
Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 24, passages 172-173
Parent of Zhang Ji (張稷)
father 父
Directly stated · Book of Liang 16, passage 81
Parent of Zhang Gui (張瓌)
father 父
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 24, passage 173
Sibling of Zhang Shu (張恕)
younger brother 弟 · Full siblings
Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 24, passage 185
Spouse of Birth mother of Zhang Ji
Marriage
Strongly inferred · Book of Liang 16, passages 81-82

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Career and standing

Imperial Censor 中丞
AD 420 to AD 479 宋世 · Held
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 39, passage 154
general who pacifies the north 征北將軍
Held
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 32, passage 60
Right Grand Master of Splendid Happiness 右光祿大夫
Held
Directly stated · Book of Liang 16, passage 81
Right Household Grandee 右光祿大夫
Held
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 24, passage 173
Imposed
AD 420 to AD 479 宋世 · Dismissal · Reason accordingly dismissed 結免
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 39, passage 154

Places and affiliations

Liu Song 劉宋
Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Wei 7, passage 40
Polity Liu Song 劉宋 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Book of Wei 7, passages 88, 90
Polity Liu Song 宋 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 24, passages 172-173
Polity Id liu-song · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 32, passage 60; Book of Southern Qi 39, passage 154

Learning and skills

Skill music / pitch 音律 · Level understood
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 24, passage 174

Works and attributed material

The bell still has copper slag in it.
Speech · Speaker · With Emperor Xiaowu (孝武帝)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 24, passage 174

Events and relationships

Attacked
Military · Commander · With Xue Andu (薛安都)
Directly stated · Book of Wei 7, passage 40
Defeated by
AD 467 皇興元年春正月癸巳 · Military · Defeated · With Wei Yuan (尉元) · At east of Lüliang 呂梁東
Directly stated · Book of Wei 7, passage 48
Diagnosed and cleared Taiji Hall bell
Technical · Expert · With Emperor Xiaowu (孝武帝)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 24, passages 174-175
Fled on horseback and escaped
Military · Fugitive
Directly stated · Book of Wei 7, passage 50
Resisted Guiyang rebels at Baixia and was routed
Military · Commander · At Baixia 白下
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 24, passage 178
Resisted royal authority
AD 468 十有二月甲午 · Military · Commander · Mode edict Speaker Emperor Xianwen (顯祖)
Directly stated · Book of Wei 7, passage 88

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Retreated
Military · Commander
Directly stated · Book of Wei 7, passage 45
Relation Served under · Person Emperor Ming of Song (宋明帝)
Directly stated · Book of Wei 7, passage 40

Assessments and attributes

Assessment deluded and in turmoil · Mode edict Speaker Emperor Xianwen (顯祖)
Directly stated · Book of Wei 7, passage 88

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 39, passage 154

References in the histories

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History

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Book of Liang, Chapter 16Volume 16: Wang Liang; Zhang Ji; Wang Ying · 2 passages

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父永，宋右光祿大夫。 His father Yong was Song right grand master of splendid happiness.

稷所生母遘疾歷時，稷始年十一，夜不解衣而養，永異之。 Ji's birth mother had long been ill; when Ji was eleven he would not unbind his clothes to nurse her—Yong marveled at this.

Book of Liang, Chapter 30Volume 30: Pei Ziye; Gu Xie; Xu Chi; Bao Quan · 2 passages

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外從祖宋右光祿張永嘗攜內外孫侄游虎丘山，協年數歲，永撫之曰：「兒欲何戲？」 His maternal great-uncle Zhang Yong, who had served Song as Right Director of the Imperial Secretariat, once took the inner and outer grandsons and nephews to tour Tiger Hill. Xie was only a few years old; Yong stroked him and said, "Child, what would you like to play?"

永歎息曰：「顧氏興於此子。」 Yong sighed and said, "The Gu clan will rise through this child."

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 24Volume 24 Biographies 5: Liu Shilong, Zhang Gui · 4 passages

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父永，右光祿大夫。 His father Yong was Right Household Grandee.

曉音律，宋孝武問永以太極殿前鍾聲嘶，永答「鍾有銅滓」。 Yong understood music; Emperor Xiaowu of Song asked him why the bell before the Hall of Supreme Pole sounded hoarse, and Yong answered, "The bell still has copper slag in it."

初，永拒桂陽賊於白下，潰散，阮佃夫等欲加罪，太祖固申明之，瓌由此感恩自結。 Earlier Yong had held the Guiyang rebels at Baixia and been routed; Ruan Tianfu and others wanted him punished, but the Founding Emperor spoke firmly in his defense—Gui bound himself to the throne in gratitude.

遭父喪，還吳持服。 When his father died he returned to Wu to observe mourning.

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 32Volume 32 Biographies 13: Wang Kun, Zhang Dai, Chu Xuan, He Ji, Wang Yanzhi, Ruan Tao · 2 passages

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岱少與兄太子中舍人寅、新安太守鏡、征北將軍永、弟廣州刺史辨俱知名，謂之張氏五龍。 Young, Dai and his brothers—Yin, a crown-prince household court gentleman; Jing, administrator of Xin'an; Yong, general who pacifies the north; and the younger Bian, administrator of Guangzhou—were all celebrated; people spoke of the Zhang clan's Five Dragons.

寅、鏡名最高，永、辨、岱不及也。 Yin and Jing stood highest in renown; Yong, Bian, and Dai could not equal them.

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 39Volume 39 Biographies 20: Liu Huan, Di Jin, Lu Cheng · 1 passage

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中丞張永結免。 Imperial Censor Zhang Yong was accordingly dismissed.

Book of Wei, Chapter 7Volume 6 Annals: Xianzu (Emperor Xianwen) · 6 passages

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劉彧徐州刺史薛安都以彭城內屬，彧將張永、沈攸之擊安都。 Xue Andu, Liu Yu's inspector of Xuzhou, submitted Pengcheng to allegiance; Liu Yu's generals Zhang Yong and Shen Youzhi attacked him.

十有二月己未，尉元軍次于秺，彧將周凱、張永、沈攸之相繼退走。 In the twelfth month, on the jiwei day, Wei Yuan's army halted at Du, and Liu Yu's generals Zhou Kai, Zhang Yong, and Shen Youzhi retreated one after another.

皇興元年春正月癸巳，尉元大破張永、沈攸之於呂梁東，斬首數萬級，凍死者甚眾。 In the first month of spring of the first year of Huangxing, on the guisi day, Wei Yuan greatly defeated Zhang Yong and Shen Youzhi east of Lüliang; heads taken numbered in the tens of thousands, and very many died of cold.

永、攸之單騎走免。 Zhang Yong and Shen Youzhi fled alone on horseback and escaped.

十有二月甲午，詔曰：「頃張永迷擾，敢拒王威，暴骨原隰，殘廢不少。 In the twelfth month, on the jiawu day, an edict stated, "Recently Zhang Yong, deluded and in turmoil, dared resist the king's majesty; bones lie exposed on the plains and marshes, and the maimed and ruined are not few.

天下民一也，可敕郡縣，永軍殘廢之士，聽還江南； The people of the realm are one; let the commanderies and counties be charged: soldiers of Zhang Yong's army who are maimed and ruined are to be permitted to return south of the Yangtze;