Zhāng Jiè 張戒 (fl. 1135–1157)
Zì Dìngfù 定復. Native of Zhèngpíng 正平 in modern Shānxī. Jìnshì of the Xuānhé era under the Northern Sòng (the Sìkù tíyào notes that the prime minister Zhào Dǐng 趙鼎 praised him as having “passed the examination more than ten years ago, and once held office as a xiànlìng”). Recommended for court audience by Zhào Dǐng in the fourth month of Shàoxīng 5 (1135), appointed Guózǐ jiān chéng 國子監丞 of the Imperial Academy. In Shàoxīng 8 (1138) he was successively Bīngbù yuánwài láng 兵部員外郎 acting as Jiānchá yùshǐ 監察御史, then Diànzhōng shì yùshǐ 殿中侍御史, then Sīnóng shàoqīng 司農少卿. He was demoted in the same year for memorialising in defense of Zhào Dǐng. In Shàoxīng 12 (1142) Luó Rǔjí 羅汝楫 impeached him as an obstructor of the peace negotiations and a partisan of Zhào Dǐng and Yuè Fēi 岳飛, and he was specially dismissed from office. In Shàoxīng 27 (1157) he was reappointed as Zuǒ xuānjiào láng 左宣教郎, supervising the Chóngdào guàn 崇道觀 in Tāizhōu — a sinecure post for retired officials; his end is undocumented and presumably came in retirement.
Zhāng’s political career is closely bound to that of Zhào Dǐng; his policy line (peace as outward stance, military preparation as substance, fighting only when forced) marked him as a moderate, but his attacks on the peace party of Qín Huì 秦檜 cost him his career. The Sìkù editors call him “an upright and clear-spoken official.” His one surviving work is the Suìhántáng shīhuà 歲寒堂詩話 (KR4i0021).
CBDB has two homonymous entries for 張戒 (13772 and 29548), both citing CBD 3.2236(-7); these are cross-references to a single Sòng official, not two different persons.