Zhang Zhu (; 1287–1368),

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Zhongju (仲舉), was a

Yuan Dynasty The Yuan dynasty (), officially the Great Yuan (; xng, , , literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its division. It was established by Kublai, the fifth ...

poet. A native of (?), he brought himself into notice by his poetry, and was subsequently employed upon the histories of the Liao,

Later Jin Later Jin may refer to two states in imperial China: * Later Jin (Five Dynasties) (後晉; 936–947), one of the Five Dynasties * Later Jin (1616–1636) (後金; 1616–1636), precursor to the Qing dynasty See also * Jin (disambiguation) Jin ...

, and Song dynasties, rising to be a Doctor in the Hanlin Academy and holding other high offices. He was the author of a collection of verses (titled 蛻巖詞). His phrase "cataclysm of the red

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" (红羊劫), is still used in the sense of "great calamity." "In the hexagenary system of calendrical calculation, the years bingwu and dingwei in the cycle were believed to be years in which national disasters would occur. In the ten heavenly stems (tiangan) bing and ding, the first character in each combination, belong to the element fire, and their color is red; furthermore, of the zodiac animal signs for the twelve earthly branches (dizhi), the

stands for wei. Hence, the "calamity of the red

.""Passionate Women: female suicide in late imperial China by Paul S. Ropp, Paola Zamperini, Harriet Thelma Zurndorfer (pg. 127)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Zhang, Zhu 1287 births 1368 deaths Yuan dynasty historians Yuan dynasty poets Politicians from Linfen Poets from Shanxi Yuan dynasty government officials Historians from Shanxi 14th-century Chinese historians