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Zhang Shangying

Type Figure Region China Time 1043–1122 Also known as Tianjue、Layman Wujin、Wenzhong

Zhang Shangying, courtesy name Tianjue, styled Layman Wujin, from Xinjin in Shuzhou, was a late Northern Song chancellor and calligrapher who succeed…

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  1. 1110–1111Kaifeng · KaifengIn the fourth year of Daguan Cai Jing was dismissed again and Zhang Shangying was made Right Director of the Department of State Affairs as chancellor. Following Cai Jing he slightly altered his policies, curbing extravagance, halting construction, and restraining the powerful favorites; court and country praised him for standing firm on right and wrong. After a long drought rain fell, and Huizong wrote 'Shanglin' in large characters and bestowed it on him.
  2. 1111–1120Hengzhou · HengyangEarly in the Zhenghe era, when his dealings with the alchemist Guo Tianxin came to light, he was impeached by censors, dismissed as chancellor, and made prefect of Henan Prefecture; he was soon demoted to deputy military commissioner of Chongxin Commandery and exiled to Hengzhou. Thereafter politically marginalized, he only gradually regained his former rank in the Xuanhe era.

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