Zhāng Xíngjiǎn 張行簡
Style name Jìngfǔ 敬甫; posthumous canonization Wénzhèng 文正. Native of Jǔzhōu Rìzhào 莒州日照 (in modern Shāndōng). Son of Lǐbù shìláng Zhāng Wěi 張暐. Jìnshì of Dàdìng 19 (1179) of the Jīn dynasty; reached Lǐbù shàngshū (Minister of Rites), Hànlínyuàn xuéshì chéngzhǐ (Hànlín Reader-Lecturer with Imperial-Edict Authority), and Tàizǐ tàifù (Crown Prince’s Grand Tutor); posthumously bestowed Yínqīng Rónglù dàfū. Biography in Jīnshǐ.
A Jīn-dynasty official-scholar from a hereditary ritual-officials family; specialized in ritual-and-astronomical-and-numerological scholarship. The Jīnshǐ records his works: literary collection in 15 juàn, Lǐlì zuǎn in 120 juàn, plus Huìtóng cháoxiàn díjiá sāngzàng (records of imperial assemblies, court-audiences, ancestral sacrifices, mourning, and burials). His sole surviving Sìkù-preserved work is the Rénlún dàtǒng fù 人倫大統賦 (KR3g0046) — a physiognomic composition-poem of approximately 2-3 thousand characters.
The Jīnshǐ biography unaccountably does not record this xiāngshù work; the Sìkù 提要 of KR3g0046 notes the omission and provides documentary evidence (Xuē Yánnián’s 薛延年 Huángqìng 2 / 1313 commentary preface) confirming Zhāng Xíngjiǎn’s authorship. The biography’s omission is attributed to “[the work having] inadvertently been overlooked [in the biographical compilation]“.