Western-Hàn 西漢 strategist, styled Zǐfáng 子房, enfeoffed as Marquis of Liú (留侯 Liúhóu) and posthumously as Wénchénghóu 文成侯 (d. 187 BCE). Native of Chéngfù 城父 (present-day Ānhuī), of aristocratic Hán-state 韓 lineage whose dispossession by Qín 秦 shaped his political biography. Zhāng Liáng is one of the three “Heroic Founders” (漢初三傑) of the Hàn, alongside Xiāo Hé 蕭何 and Hán Xìn 韓信, whose strategic counsels secured Liú Bāng 劉邦’s victory in the Chǔ–Hàn contention (206–202 BCE); he retired from court early and, according to Shǐjì 史記 55 and Hànshū 漢書 40, pursued Daoist reclusive-immortal cultivation in his final years under the guidance of Huáng Shígōng 黃石公, with whose legendary bestowal of the Tàigōng bīngfǎ 太公兵法 (“Art of War of the Grand Duke”) he is forever associated. His historical biography lies outside the scope of the Kanripo corpus proper, but Daoist tradition deified him as Tiānshū shàngxiàng 天樞上相 (“Supreme Minister of the Celestial Pivot,” i.e. the star DǒuShū 斗樞 at the lip of the Northern Dipper), in which capacity he is fictively credited as the collator-commentator of Gāoshàng Yùhuáng běnxíng jíjīng (èr) 高上玉皇本行集經(二) (DZ 11). The attribution is pseudepigraphic — the scripture is a late-Southern-Sòng or early-Yuán Qīngwēi-school 清微 production, roughly thirteen hundred years after Zhāng’s death — but the celestial-office framing is carried through the text with notable editorial care. Multiple CBDB entries exist under 張良 (c_personid 12239 and several others) without lifedates; as an early-Hàn figure he falls outside CBDB’s main coverage period. On his historical biography: Shǐjì 55; Hànshū 40; Mark Edward Lewis, The Early Chinese Empires (Belknap Press, 2007). On his Daoist deification: Liú Yǒngmíng 劉永明, WèiJìn NánBěicháo Dàojiào shǐ 魏晉南北朝道教史 (Rénmín chūbǎnshè, 2006).