Song, Liao, and Jin · Scholar and Philosopher

Zhang Zai 張載

Attested AD 1011 - AD 1200

Passages: 5
Chapters: 3
Histories: 2

Overview

Zhang Zai was a scholar and Philosopher.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1020 to AD 1077 AD 1020-1077
Strongly inferred · History of Song 436, passage 292
AD 1011 to AD 1200 宋代學者
Directly stated · History of Yuan 171, passage 15
AD 1050 to AD 1077 程頤、張載、朱熹諸書
Strongly inferred · History of Song 408, passage 3

Key source chapters

Career and standing

proposed for attendant sacrifice in Confucius temple 從祀孔子廟
AD 1208 to AD 1224 嘉定 · Proposed
Dated from the passage context · History of Song 436, passage 292

Places and affiliations

Polity Northern Song 北宋 · Relation Lived under
Strongly inferred · History of Song 408, passage 3
Polity Song 宋 · Relation Lived under
Strongly inferred · History of Song 436, passage 292

Works and attributed material

writings of Zhang Zai 張載諸書
Relation Author
Directly stated · History of Song 408, passage 3

Events and relationships

Attendant sacrifice in Confucius temple proposed
AD 1208 to AD 1224 嘉定 · Ritual · Proposed honoree · With Confucius (孔子)
Dated from the passage context · History of Song 436, passage 292
Ritual · Enshrined · At Meizhou 眉州
Directly stated · History of Song 408, passage 9

References in the histories

History of Song, Chapter 408Volume 408 Biographies 167: Wu Changyi, Wang Gang, Chen Mi, Wang Ting · 2 passages

蚤孤，與兄泳痛自植立，不肯逐時好，得程頤、張載、朱熹諸書，輒研繹不倦。 Orphaned in childhood, he and his elder brother Yong rigorously made their own way in the world, refusing to follow prevailing fashions. Whenever he obtained works by Cheng Yi, Zhang Zai, Zhu Xi, and others, he would study and interpret them tirelessly.

眉士故尚蘇軾學，昌裔取諸經為之講說，祠周惇頤及顥、頤、載、熹，揭《白鹿洞學規》，仿潭州釋奠儀，簿正祭器，士習丕變。 The scholars of Meizhou had long favored Su Shi's school of learning. Changyi lectured on the classics instead, erected shrines to Zhou Dunyi and to Hao, Cheng Yi, Zhang Zai, and Zhu Xi, posted the White Deer Grotto Academy regulations, imitated the Tanzhou libation ceremony, put the ritual vessels in proper order on the register, and scholarly practice was thoroughly transformed.

History of Song, Chapter 436Volume 436 Biographies 195: Confucian Scholars 6: Chen Liang, Zheng Qiaolinting, Li Daochuan · 1 passage

願下明詔，崇尚正學，取朱熹《論語》、《孟子集注》、《中庸大學章句》、《或問》四書，頒之太學，仍請以周惇頤、邵雍、程顥、程頤、張載五人從祀孔子廟。」 Issue a clear edict to honor true learning, distribute Zhu Xi's Four Books—the 《Analects》, 《Mencius》, 《Great Learning and Mean》, and 《Questions》—through the academy, and add Zhou Dunyi, Shao Yong, the two Chengs, and Zhang Zai to Confucius's temple.'

History of Yuan, Chapter 171Volume 171 Biographies 58: Liu Yin, Wu Cheng · 2 passages

及得周、程、張、邵、朱、呂之書，一見能發其微，曰：「我固謂當有是也。」 When he came upon the works of Zhou Dunyi, the Cheng brothers, Zhang Zai, Shao Yong, Zhu Xi, and Lü Zuqian, he grasped their subtleties at once and said, "I always knew such teaching must exist."

近古之統：周子其元，程、張其亨也，朱子其利也，孰為今日之貞乎？ The lineage of recent antiquity: Zhou Dunyi is the Origin, the Cheng brothers and Zhang Zai the Flourishing, Zhu Xi the Advantage—who is today's Steadfastness?