张延寿 / Zhang Yanshou (Western Han)

Overview

张延寿 / Zhang Yanshou enters the wiki through Hanji 431 as 张安世’s son, whose appointment becomes part of Zhang Anshi’s family-risk management under 汉宣帝.

Current Profile

The source does not make Zhang Yanshou an independent protagonist. His significance is relational: Zhang Anshi sees father and son becoming too prominent at court and asks that Yanshou be sent out to local office. Xuan appoints him Beidi taishou, then later recalls him as left cao taipu because Zhang Anshi is old. Yanshou therefore marks a family-positioning device inside the episode’s larger lesson about not letting household honor become excessive court visibility.

Key Characteristics

• Son of 张安世 in the Western Han court setting.
• Sent outward to Beidi as taishou when Zhang Anshi fears family prominence.
• Later recalled to the capital as left cao taipu because Xuan considers Zhang Anshi’s old age.
• Functions mainly as evidence of family de-concentration rather than as an independently profiled official.

Evidence

Family de-concentration:

• Hanji 431 says Zhang Anshi becomes uneasy as father and son grow prominent at court.
• Hanji 431 says Zhang asks Xuan to send Zhang Yanshou out as Beidi taishou.

Recall under imperial favor:

• Hanji 431 says Xuan later recalls Yanshou as left cao taipu because he pities Zhang Anshi’s age.

Qualifications

This page is source-scoped to Hanji 431. It does not reconstruct Zhang Yanshou’s full career, offices, family branches, or later historical significance beyond the episode’s use of him as a visibility-management case.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 431’s Zhang-family de-concentration episode.

Relationships

• 张安世 / Zhang Anshi (Western Han) - father whose self-protective family positioning makes Zhang Yanshou relevant.
• Emperor Xuan of Han / 汉宣帝 / 刘询 / 刘病已 - ruler who appoints and later recalls Zhang Yanshou.
• 不显功式自保 / Quiet Credit Self-Protection - adjacent family-risk logic because both patterns reduce dangerous visibility around service and favor.