** Zhang Juzheng, Ming Dynasty official ( b. 1525 )

* The Ming Dynasty Chancellor of China, Chief Grand Secretary Zhang Juzheng, imposes the Single Whip Reform, by which taxes are assessed on properties recorded in the land census and paid in silver as the accepted medium of exchange.

* Zhang Jiugao, of Tang Dynasty, younger brother of prime minister Zhang Jiuling, ancestor of the Song general Zhang Jun and Ming prime minister Zhang Juzheng.

Before Longqing died, he had instructed minister Zhang Juzheng to overlook affairs of state and become the dedicated advisor to the Wanli Emperor who was only 10.

For the first ten years of his reign, the young emperor was aided by a notable statesman, Zhang Juzheng ( 張居正 ).

Zhang Juzheng directed the path of the country and exercised his skills and power as an able administrator.

After Zhang Juzheng died, Wanli decided to take complete control of the government.

The great taxation reform by Zhang Juzheng ( Chinese: 張居正 ) in 1581 ( 9th year of the Wanli Emperor ) simplified the taxation and required all the tax and corvee to be paid in silver.

Zhang Juzheng () ( 1525 – 1582 ), courtesy name: Shuda ( 叔大 ), pseudonym: Taiyue ( 太岳 ), was a powerful Grand Secretary in the Ming Dynasty under the Longqing and Wanli emperors.

Zhang Juzheng was embroiled in a deep political turmoil from the very start.

Zhang Juzheng ( Wade-Giles: Chang Chü-cheng ) is an important character in Ray Huang's 1587: A Year of No Significance, a documentary book on the period.

A book by mainland Chinese Internet writer " Dang Nian Ming Yue ", called " The Ming Dynasty's Events ", also featured Zhang Juzheng as a main character.

Zhang Juzheng former house in Jingzhou

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In the famous long scroll Along the River During the Qingming Festival painted by Zhang Zeduan ( 1085 – 1145 AD ) during the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1297 AD ), a suanpan is clearly seen lying beside an account book and doctor's prescriptions on the counter of an apothecary's ( Feibao ).

* 1981 – Zhang Yaokun, Chinese footballer

In ancient China, large canals for river transport were established as far back as the Warring States ( 481 – 221 BC ), the longest one of that period being the Hong Gou ( Canal of the Wild Geese ), which according to the ancient historian Sima Qian connected the old states of Song, Zhang, Chen, Cai, Cao, and Wei.

* Zhang Wentian a. k. a. Luo Fu, acting General Secretary 1935 – 1943

In the Encyclopedia of a Myriad of Treasures, Zhang Pu ( 1602 – 1641 ) described the game of laying out dominoes as pupai, although the character for pu had changed, yet retained the same pronunciation.

* 1979 – Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress

* 1988 – Zhang Jike, Chinese table tennis player

The Gautama Buddha | Sakyamuni Buddha, by Zhang Shengwen, 1173 – 1176 AD, Song Dynasty period.

Robert Temple quotes an account from Zhang Yan's Zhongdou xinshu ( 種痘新書 ), or New book on smallpox inoculation, written in 1741 during the Qing Dynasty ( 1644 – 1912 ), which shows how the Chinese process had become refined up until that point:

* 1984 – Xi Zhang, American Painter

* 1901 – Zhang Xueliang, Chinese warlord ( d. 2001 )

* 1984 – Zhang Hao, Chinese figure skater

* 1987 – Zhang Lin, Chinese swimmer

* 1893 – The Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, is founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne is approved by the Qing Government.

* 1991 – Zhang Yixing, Chinese / Korean singer

* 1978 – Zhang Zhong, Chinese chess player

* 1948 – Zhang Chengzhi, Chinese author

Zhang Heng (; AD 78 – 139 ) was a Chinese astronomer, mathematician, inventor, geographer, cartographer, artist, poet, statesman, and literary scholar from Nanyang, Henan.

His grandfather, Zhang Kan, had been governor of a commandery, and one of the leaders who supported the restoration of the Han Dynasty by Emperor Guangwu ( r. 25 – 57 ), following the death of the usurper Wang Mang and his short-lived Xin Dynasty ( AD 9 – 23 ).

In 112, Zhang was summoned to the court of Emperor An of Han ( r. 106 – 125 ), who had heard of Zhang's expertise in mathematics.

However, Zhang was barred from assisting the committee due to his controversial views on apocrypha and his objection to the relegation of Emperor Gengshi's ( r. 23 – 25 ) role in the restoration of the Han Dynasty as lesser than Emperor Guangwu's.

Despite this setback in his official career, Zhang was reappointed as Chief Astronomer in 126 after Emperor Shun of Han ( r. 125 – 144 ) ascended to the throne.

Zhang read many of the great works of history in his day and claimed he had found ten instances where the Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian ( 145 – 90 BC ) and the Book of Han by Ban Gu ( AD 32 – 92 ) differed from other ancient texts that were available to him.