1980 The political lyric "Please raise your hand like a forest" won the first National New Poetry Award;
In 2000, the prose "Kunming Epiphyllum Temple" won the first prize of People's Daily Tourism Prose;
Starting from 1993, Zhang, a four-volume historical novel that took ten years to create, has won unanimous praise from readers at home and abroad. It is praised by critics as an important achievement of China's novels in the new period. This book has won the Hubei Provincial Government Book Award, the first Yao Long Historical Novel Award and the sixth Quyuan Literature and Art Award in Hubei Province.
In 2002, Zhang won Qu Yuan Literature Award and Hubei Provincial Government Book Award successively.
In April 2005, Zhang was unanimously elected as the first prize of the 6th Mao Dun Literature Prize.
In 2006, he won the May 1st Labor Medal of Hubei Province, and was employed as a part-time researcher at the Research Center of Traditional Culture of Wuhan University and a visiting professor at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law.