Zhang Qian and Zhang Qian are not the same person.
The title of the seal on the "Zhang Qian Stele" is "Ode to Zhang Jun, the commander of Chang Dang Yin of Hubei City in the Han Dynasty", also known as "Ode to Zhang Qian Biao". Year) Wuyan (ruled today's Dongping, Shandong Province) was unearthed in the Ming Dynasty and is now in the Dai Temple in Tai'an, Shandong. The inscription on Zhang Qian's stele records Zhang Qian's political achievements. It was engraved by Wei Yin and others in Zhang Qian's former residence to commend him. The calligraphy is simple, thick, vigorous and beautiful, square and changeable, and the shadow of the stele is particularly smooth. Wang Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty commented on Zhang Qian's monument in his "Four Manuscripts of the Mountain Man of Yanzhou": "The calligraphy is not perfect, but the elegance and ancient meaning are ultimately beyond the reach of Yongjia and later generations."
Zhang Qian (164 BC - BC) 114 AD), named Ziwen, was born in Chenggu, Hanzhong County (now Chenggu County, Shaanxi Province). He was an outstanding diplomat, traveler and explorer in the Han Dynasty of China. My hometown is Bowang Village on the bank of the Han River, 2 kilometers south of Chenggu County, Hanzhong.
Zhang Qian was full of pioneering and adventurous spirit. In the second year of Jianyuan (139 BC), in the name of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, with the Huns Ganfu as guide, he led more than 100 people on an envoy to the Western Regions and opened up the Han Dynasty. Along the north-south road leading to the Western Regions, the famous Silk Road, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty granted the title of Bowang Hou for his military merits. Zhang Qian is a pioneer of the Silk Road and is known as "the first Chinese to open his eyes to see the world." He spread the civilization of the Central Plains to the Western Regions, and introduced species such as sweat horses, grapes, alfalfa, pomegranates, and flax from the countries in the Western Regions to the Central Plains, promoting the exchanges of Eastern and Western civilizations. In the third year of Yuanding reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (114 BC), Zhang Qian died of illness in Chang'an and was buried in his hometown in Hanzhong.