Zhāng Xù 張緒
Zì Sīmàn 思曼. Liú Sòng / Southern Qí scholar-official and Yìjīng specialist; native of Wú jùn 吳郡 (modern Sū zhōu). Of southern qiáoxìng extraction, a member of one of the principal Wú émigré lineages that staffed the Southern Dynasties civil bureaucracy. Successively Erudite of the Imperial Academy (tài-xué bóshì 太學博士), Vice Director of the Secretariat (zhōng-shū lìng 中書令), Grand Master of Splendid Happiness (jīn-zǐ guānglù dàifū 金紫光祿大夫), and ultimately Right Vice Director of the Department of State Affairs (shàng-shū yòu pú-yè 尚書右僕射). Famously praised by Qí Gāodì for his bearing — “his manner is like the liǔ 柳 of Lóng-tián 龍田” (a remark that became proverbial). A specialist in the Yìjīng and Lǎozǐ, he composed a (lost) Yì yìshū 易義疏 and a Lǎozǐ yìshū 老子義疏. Took part in Crown Prince Wénhuì’s 文惠太子 (see 蕭長懋) Yǒngmíng Xiàojīng seminars in 485–487 (see KR1f0015) as the senior adjudicator on questions of jìng 敬 and gōng 恭. Died in 489 at the age of 68. Biography: Nán Qí shū 南齊書 33; Nán shǐ 南史 31.