Zhāng Zǔchéng 章祖程 (fl. early to mid-14th century), zì Héfǔ 和父, was a Yuán-period scholar from Kūnyáng 崐陽 (in Wēnzhōu 溫州, the same prefecture as the late-Sòng loyalist poet Lín Jǐngxī 林景熙). His principal — and effectively only — surviving work is the annotated commentary on Lín Jǐngxī’s poetry collection Báishí qiáochàng 白石樵唱, completed by his own colophon date of Yuántǒng 2 jiǎxū 元統甲戌 (1334). The commentary became inseparable from later printings of the Jìshān wénjí 霽山文集 KR4d0395 (Lín Jǐngxī’s collection as recovered by Lǚ Hóng in 1463); it is one of the earliest substantial Yuán annotations on a late-Sòng biéjí, and arguably the earliest commentary on a Sòng-loyalist poet to survive in printed form.
Zhāng’s preface positions Lín as the heir of Táo Qián’s “Yìxī loyalty” and of Dù Fǔ’s “Tiānbǎo grief” — the two great poets of dynastic catastrophe. He undertook the annotation, by his own account, as a labor of admiration for a senior compatriot of his home prefecture, working from his “child-instruction leisure” (童課之暇), and explicitly modeled his project on Lǐ Shàn’s 李善 commentary on the Wénxuǎn 文選.
The colophon by Zhèng Xī 鄭僖 of Zhìyuán 元 yǐhài 乙亥 (1335), preserved alongside Zhāng’s preface in the WYG text, attests to a correspondence between Zhèng and Zhāng on the Hétú / Luòshū questions, suggesting that Zhāng’s interests extended beyond literary commentary to xiàngshù studies; no other works of his have survived. CBDB has no securely identifiable record for Zhāng Zǔchéng; the cbdbId field is therefore left blank.