Zhāng Jùn 張浚
Style name Déyuǎn 德遠; hào (sobriquet) Zǐyán 紫巖; posthumous title Zhōngxiàn 忠獻. Native of Miánzhú 綿竹 in Hànzhōu 漢州 (modern Sìchuān). Lifedates 1097–1164 (Northern through mid Southern Sòng). The Sòngshǐ (juan 361) carries his canonical biography. Father of Zhāng Shì 張栻 (Master Nánxuān 南軒, 1133–1180), the canonical Southern-Sòng Dàoxué philosopher.
Jìnshì of 1118 (Zhènghé 8). Held a long succession of central appointments under Huīzōng, then under the southern crossing served Gāozōng as Zhī Shūmì yuàn shì 知樞密院事 (“Director of the Bureau of Military Affairs”). Led the imperial expeditionary armies in the failed Fùzhōu 富州 and Yánchéng 郾城 campaigns against the Jin (1130s–1140s). His alliance with the moderate-faction chancellor Zhào Dǐng 趙鼎 and his programmatic anti-Qín-Huì 秦檜 stance kept him on a long cycle of demotion-and-recall through the 1130s and 1140s; settled to Yǒngzhōu 永州 in modern Húnán in the early 1140s. Recalled to court office under Xiàozōng (1162) and led the failed Lóngxīng-era northward expedition; died in 1164.
A canonical figure of the Southern-Sòng anti-Jurchen recovery party. His political reputation was consolidated by Zhū Xī, who composed his xíngzhuàng on his death in 1164 — the canonical document of Zhāng Jùn’s hagiographic profile as the principal political-moral prototype of the recovery party. Zhū Xī’s intellectual-historical work then made Zhāng’s son Zhāng Shì one of the founding figures of Southern-Sòng Dàoxué; the Zhū Xī–Zhāng Shì–Lǚ Zǔqiān triangle is the formative network of the Southern-Sòng intellectual mainstream.
His sole substantial surviving scholarly work:
- [[KR1a0021|Zǐyán Yìzhuàn]] 紫巖易傳 in ten juan — Yì commentary completed in two successive autograph drafts, the second self-dated to 1158/04/06 (Shàoxīng wùyín 4th month 6th day). Doctrinally combines the Liú Mù 劉牧 KR1a0011 HéLuò assignment (9 as Hétú, 10 as Luòshū) with a yìlǐ exposition. The Zá shuō 雜說 last juan was already part of the work in Zhū Xī’s xíngzhuàng witness.