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张英

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Zhāng Yīng
proper noun #41,113

Meanings

  1. 1 Zhang Ying
  2. 2 Qing dynasty scholar-official under the Kangxi Emperor, Grand Secretary, and father of Zhang Tingyu

About Zhang Ying

1637–1708 · 政治家 politician

Grand Secretary under the Kangxi Emperor, remembered for the 六尺巷 (Six-Foot Lane) story: when his family wrote about a wall dispute, he told them to yield three feet, and the neighbours did the same.

Also called  敦复、 文端

Examples

HSK 7-9
张英是清朝康熙年间的大学士。
Zhāng Yīng shì Qīngcháo Kāngxī niánjiān de dàxuéshì.
Zhang Ying was a Grand Secretary during the Kangxi era of the Qing dynasty.
HSK 7-9
安徽桐城的'六尺巷'故事就和张英有关。
Ānhuī Tóngchéng de ' Liùchǐ Xiàng ' gùshi jiù hé Zhāng Yīng yǒuguān.
The 'Six-Foot Lane' story in Tongcheng, Anhui, is associated with Zhang Ying.

Tips

history
His reply home was a quatrain: 千里送书只为墙，让他三尺又何妨。长城万里今犹在，不见当年秦始皇。 'A letter from a thousand li away, all for a wall? Let him have three feet. The Great Wall still stands, but where is the First Emperor now?'
history
He and his son 张廷玉 both rose to Grand Secretary, remembered as 父子双学士，老小二宰相, 'father and son, two Grand Secretaries; old and young, two chief ministers'. Tingyu was the only Han official of the Qing enshrined in the imperial ancestral temple.

Stroke Order

张 zhāng
英 yīng