Zhang Cong
Zhang Cong | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 張璁 | |||||||
| Senior Grand Secretary | |||||||
| In office 1529–1531 | |||||||
| Monarch | Jiajing | ||||||
| Preceded by | Yang Yiqing | ||||||
| Succeeded by | Zhai Luan | ||||||
| In office 1531–1532 | |||||||
| Monarch | Jiajing | ||||||
| Preceded by | Zhai Luan | ||||||
| Succeeded by | Fang Xianfu | ||||||
| In office 1533–1535 | |||||||
| Monarch | Jiajing | ||||||
| Preceded by | Fang Xianfu | ||||||
| Succeeded by | Li Shi | ||||||
| Grand Secretary | |||||||
| In office 1527–1531, 1531–1532, 1533–1535 | |||||||
| Monarch | Jiajing | ||||||
| Chancellor of the Hanlin Academy | |||||||
| In office 1524–1527 Serving with Gui E | |||||||
| Monarch | Jiajing | ||||||
| Personal details | |||||||
| Born | 1475 | ||||||
| Died | 1539 (aged 63–64) | ||||||
| Education | jinshi degree (1521) | ||||||
| Courtesy name | Bingyong, later Maogong | ||||||
| Art name | Luofeng | ||||||
| Posthumous name | Wenzhong | ||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 張璁 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 张璁 | ||||||
| |||||||
Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox officeholder with deprecated parameter "imagesize". Replace with "image_size".
Zhang Cong (1475–1539), also known as Zhang Fujing, was a Chinese scholar-official who held high office during the early reign of the Ming emperor Jiajing. After the Jiajing Emperor ascended the throne, Zhang supported him in the Great Rites Controversy, which led to a highly successful career. From 1527 to 1535, with some interruptions, he served as grand secretary, and in 1529 he became the head of the Grand Secretariat. From the early 1530s, the Emperor paid less attention to Zhang and showed more favor to another official, Xia Yan. Zhang resigned as grand secretary in 1535, and he died four years later.