He was from Ding Province (定州, roughly modern Baoding, Hebei), and in his youth, he studied under a man named Liu Xuan (劉炫).
Zhang Fei | Zhang Yimou | Zhang Wentian | Zhang Zhidong | Zhang Ruimin | Zhang Yan (Han Dynasty) | Zhang Yan | Zhang Xun | Xingcheng | Zhang Yue (Tang Dynasty) | Zhang Yue | Zhang Dejiang | Zhang Anshi | Liu Zhang | Jianyi Zhang | Zhang Zuoxiang | Zhang Zuolin | Zhang Zizhong | Zhang Zhongjing | Zhang Zhizhong | Zhang Zhijun | Zhang Zhen Huan | Zhang Yuan | Zhang Yu | Zhang Yizhi | Zhang Yiyi | Zhang Yi (strategist) | Zhang Yaodong | Zhang Yanmei | Zhang Xueliang's former residence in Wufeng, Hsinchu |