Translation of the full text of the New Tang Dynasty Book Zhang Yi Biography 30

If you are selfish, you will lose to the official, and if you degrade Mrs. Tai, you will be worried, dare to ask what you are doing? ”

The translation of the Song Shi Zhang Zaichuan is as follows:

Zhang Zai, the word is thick, and he is from Chang'an. When he was a teenager, he liked to talk about the military, and even wanted to make friends with guests to obtain the territory of Taoxi. When he was twenty-one years old, he paid homage to Fan Zhongyan with a letter, and Fan Zhongyan knew at a glance that he was a man with great ambitions, so he warned him:

Confucian scholars have their own famous teachings and feel happy, so why should they talk about military affairs? He took the opportunity to advise him to repent and read "The Mean".

Zhang Zai read this book, and thought that he was not satisfied, so he searched for and studied Buddhism and Taoism, and for many years, he had no gain from the profound meaning of this preaching, so he turned to the "Six Classics". He once sat on the tiger skin chair and explained the "Yi" Sutra in Beijing, and there were many people who followed him to listen to the lecture. One evening, two brothers, Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi, came to discuss the Book of Changes with him, and told others the next day

Recently, I have met Ercheng, and I think they have a thorough understanding of the Book of Changes, which is beyond my ability, and you can worship them as teachers. So he removed the teacher's seat and stopped lecturing. Talking about the essence of Taoism with Ercheng, he said refreshedly and confidently

My morals have been satisfied, and there is nothing else worth pursuing. So he abandoned all other doctrines and learned the Tao with simplicity and integrity.

He was admitted to the Jinshi and appointed as the Qizhou Judicial Army and the Yunyan County Commander. On the auspicious day of each month, we prepare food and wine, and gather the elderly people in the countryside to gather at the county government office and toast them in person. So that people know the morality of serving the elderly and serving the elderly, so they inquire about the sufferings of the people, and inform them of the purpose of teaching and exhorting their children.

In the early years of Xining, the emperor appointed him as the school secretary of Chongwenyuan, and then moved to the foot of Nanshan Mountain due to illness, sitting upright in a house all day long, with books on the left and right of the seats, leaning over to read, sitting on his back and thinking. I would write down what I had learned, and sometimes I would get up in the middle of the night and sit (thinking and studying), and I would light a candle and write.

His ambition is moral and thoughtful, and he never stops for a moment, and he never forgets for a moment. He wore shabby clothes, ate coarse vegetables, gave lectures to his students, and taught him the principles of etiquette and temperament every time, and he must stop his studies like a saint. He believes that understanding people without understanding the way of heaven, and asking to be a sage instead of being a saint, is a major drawback of scholars since the Qin and Han dynasties.

Because of Lu Dafang's recommendation, he was called to be in charge of the Taichang Rite Academy. Because of the inconsistency with the etiquette of the Taichang Rite Academy, he resigned from illness, and was very sick before he went to filial piety halfway, and went to sleep after taking a bath and changing clothes at night, and died early the next morning. The family was poor and had no money (or means) to bury him, so his students bought a coffin together to escort his corpse back to his hometown for burial.

Xu Jiang and others, who were scholars of Hanlin, said that he was not keen on the promotion of official positions, and asked for additional gifts, and the emperor ordered that half of the staff of the pavilion should be rewarded to assist in the funeral.