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Zhang Shuo
Tang chief minister under Ruizong and Xuanzong, three times in office, who led the 725 Mount Tai sacrifices, ran the Jixian Academy and was paired with Su Ting as a master of court prose
In a council hall, a long table holds an unrolled map scroll, a brass-cornered chest and a brush pot, with tall-backed chairs around it and a bronze lamp at the left; a figure stands with their back turned on the balcony at the right, with palace roofs beyond.
Also known as Zi Daoji · Zi Shuozhi · Yanguo Gong · Shi Wenzhen
Zhang Yue, courtesy names Daoji and Yuezhi, came of a Fanyang family long settled at Luoyang. Under Wu Zetian he came first in a palace examination, and in 703 he was banished to Qinzhou in the far south for refusing to back Zhang Yizhi's false charge against Wei Yuanzhong. He became a chief minister under Ruizong, and in 713 Xuanzong made him president of the Secretariat and Duke of Yan, though a quarrel with Yao Chong soon sent him to provincial posts. Recalled to high office in 721, he reorganised the council of state as the Secretariat-Chancellery, directed the imperial sacrifices on Mount Tai in 725, and long headed the Jixian Academy. Impeached by Yuwen Rong and others the following year, he lost his ministry. He died early in 731 with the posthumous name Wenzhen, leaving the Collected Works of the Duke of Yan. He and Su Ting, Duke of Xu, drafted the court's great documents and were known together as the masters of Yan and Xu.
Life and times
- 667 CEBorn
Tang - 677Zhaorong Drafts Imperial Edicts
Summoned by Wu Zetian at fourteen, Shangguan Wan'er came to draft palace edicts; as Zhaorong under Emperor Zhongzong she urged him to enlarge the Xiuwen Hall academy, and she judged the courtiers' poems at Kunming Pool.- Shangguan Wan'er's Edicts and Collected Works709age 42Under Zhongzong Shangguan Wan'er held sole charge of edicts; she was killed in Li Longji's coup of 710, and after he became Emperor Xuanzong he had her writings collected in twenty juan.
- Shangguan Wan'er's Edicts and Collected Works
- 731 CEDied
Works
Literature · Poetry3- Behind Schedule on the Shu RoadTangZhang Yue, delayed on a mission to Shu, finds the autumn wind has beaten him home to Luoyang
- At the Banquet Granted in the Lizheng Hall Academy, Written on Command with the Rhyme LinTangZhang Yue's court poem at a banquet in the palace academy, praising learning and royal favour
- Drinking at Night in YouzhouTangZhang Yue at a night feast on the frontier, voicing gratitude while feeling the weight of age
Connections
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