Zhang Junfang (writer)

Zhang Junfang (Chinese: 張君房, fl. 10th and 11th century) was a Taoist writer of the Northern Song Dynasty.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Zhang.

A native of Anlu (安陸) in Hubei, who served under the Emperor Zhenzong. He was noted as a wine drinker and a bibliophile. He compiled the Taoist encyclopedia Yunji Qiqian (雲笈七籤; translated as Seven Slips of the Cloudy Satchel, Seven Tablets in a Cloudy Satchel, or Seven Lots from the Bookbag of the Clouds.

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This article incorporates text from entry Chang Chün-fang2 in A Chinese Biographical Dictionary by Herbert A. Giles (1898), a publication now in the public domain.

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