Zhang Xiu 張休

Zhang Xiu, courtesy name Shusi, was the youngest son of Zhang Zhao. In the year Sun Quan became King of Wu, when his eldest son Sun Deng was made crown prince, Sun Quan selected outstanding scholars to be Sun Deng's guests and friends, and Zhuge Ke, Zhang Xiu, Gu Tan, Chen Biao and others were chosen to lecture on the Odes and the Documents. In this way, at about twenty, Zhang Xiu became Sun Deng's colleague and friend. Records, Wu 7 §16 · 24Records, Wu 14 §2

Sun Quan wished Sun Deng to read the Book of Han so as to become familiar with the affairs of recent times, and since Zhang Zhao had the proper method of a teacher but Sun Quan was reluctant to trouble him repeatedly, he had Zhang Xiu study the book under Zhang Zhao and then come back and teach it to Sun Deng. Sun Deng treated his staff with the courtesies used among commoners, and with Zhuge Ke, Zhang Xiu, Gu Tan and others he sometimes rode in the same carriage and sometimes slept under the same curtain. Records, Wu 14 §2–3Records, Wu 7 §24

When Sun Quan assumed the imperial title in the 1st year of Huanglong (229), Sun Deng became Imperial Crown Prince, and Zhuge Ke was made Left Supporter, Zhang Xiu Right Assistant, Gu Tan Corrector and Chen Biao Commandant Who Aids Rectitude; these were called the 'Four Friends'. Zhang Xiu was transferred from Palace Cadet to Commandant of the Right Assistant. When Sun Quan kept going out hunting and returning only after dark, Zhang Xiu submitted a memorial to remonstrate with and caution him, and Sun Quan praised it highly and showed it to Zhang Zhao. Records, Wu 14 §3Records, Wu 7 §24

When Zhang Zhao died in the 5th year of Jiahe (236), since his eldest son Zhang Cheng had already been enfeoffed as a marquis in his own right, the youngest son Zhang Xiu inherited the title. In the memorial Sun Deng submitted on his deathbed, he said that Zhang Xiu, Gu Tan and Xie Jing were all perceptive and had judgment and decisiveness, fit to be trusted as confidants within and to serve as claws and teeth without. After Sun Deng's death, Zhang Xiu became Palace Attendant and was appointed Commander of the Yulin Guards, concurrently managing the affairs of the Three Guard Armies, and was transferred to General Who Displays Martial Might. Records, Wu 7 §16 · 24Records, Wu 14 §8 · 10

Zhang Xiu went north with Gu Tan's younger brother Gu Cheng to attack Shouchun. The Grand Commander Quan Cong fought the Wei general Wang Ling at Quebei but the battle went badly, and when the Wei troops, taking advantage of their victory, broke the force of Qin Er, commander of five battalions, Zhang Xiu and Gu Cheng fought hard and halted the Wei army. Afterwards Quan Cong's sons Quan Xu and Quan Duan advanced and attacked, and Wang Ling's army withdrew. When merits were assessed, halting the enemy was judged the greater merit, so Zhang Xiu and Gu Cheng became generals with miscellaneous titles while Quan Xu and Quan Duan became only lieutenant and subordinate generals, and Quan Cong and his son Quan Ji (全寄) bore all the more resentment. Records, Wu 7 §44–45

Sun He's consort was the daughter of Zhang Cheng. When Sun Quan lay ill, the crown prince Sun He performed sacrifices at the ancestral temple, and the consort's uncle Zhang Xiu, who lived near the temple, invited Sun He to stop by his house. Princess Quan had someone spy on him and then said that the Crown Prince was not at the temple but had gone straight to his consort's family to plot. Because of this Sun Quan grew angry, and his favor toward Sun He gradually diminished. Records, Wu 7 §22Records, Wu 14 §27

Zhang Xiu was slandered by the faction of Sun Ba, the King of Lu. In connection with the assessment of merits for the battle of Quebei, it was alleged that Zhang Xiu and Gu Cheng had colluded with Chen Xun, the Commander of the Guard, to falsely exaggerate their achievements, and he was exiled to Jiao Province together with Gu Tan and Gu Cheng. Records, Wu 7 §24 · 49

Sun Hong, Prefect of the Palace Secretariat, was fawning, false, treacherous and wicked, a man Zhang Xiu had always resented; when Sun Hong took this opportunity to slander him, an edict was issued ordering Zhang Xiu to die. He was then forty-one. The Records do not give the year of his death. Records, Wu 7 §25

The discussion by Zhou Zhao recorded at the end of Bu Zhi's biography in Book 7 of the Records of Wu, in praising his elder brother Zhang Cheng, says that although his younger brother Shusi was close kin and held an honored position, Zhang Cheng spoke of his worry that Shusi would come to ruin. In his assessment, Chen Shou said that Gu Tan offered upright counsel in public affairs and had a loyal and steadfast integrity, and that Zhang Xiu and Gu Cheng cultivated their aims and both hoped to do good, but love and hatred assailed each other and they were exiled to the southern frontier, which was lamentable. Records, Wu 7 §97 · 101